Andrei Richter
Andrey Rikhter (Andrei Richter) holds university degrees in law, journalism and foreign languages, a doctorate in Russia and a professorship in media studies from Slovakia. He has authored more than 250 publications on media law and policy in Russian, English, Armenian, Azeri, Bosnian, Croat, German, French, Serbian, Slovak, Tajik and Ukrainian, including the only standard media law textbook for journalism students in the Russian Federation (2002, 2009, 2016), a textbook on international standards of media regulation (2011), a textbook on online media law (2014), and a book on censorship and freedom of the media in post-Soviet countries, published by UNESCO (2007). Dr Richter sits on the editorial boards of a number of international journals on communications and the media. Andrei Richter was a long-time professor at the School of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he chaired a department in media law and history. He also served as a commissioner at the International Commission of Jurists and the Chair of the Law Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. In 2011-2022 Richter was Director and Senior Adviser at the OSCE Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media in Vienna.
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of journalists and media editors, but also to guarantee in practice the right of everyone to freedom of expression (Article 29 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation). This right includes freedom of information (freedom to seek, receive and disseminate information), including freedom of mass information.
The proposed draft law is based on the need to create in Russia a free
media model common in Europe, consisting of public, commercial (private) and community media. State media should be prohibited by law and abolished in practice.
права журналистов и редакции СМИ, но и гарантировать на практике
право каждого на свободу выражения мнения (статья 29 Конституции РФ). Это право включает в себя свободу информации (свободу искать, получать и распространять информацию), в том числе — свободу массовой информации.
Предлагаемый законопроект исходит из необходимости создать в
России общепринятую в Европе модель свободных медиа, состоящую из общественных, коммерческих (частных) и местных медиа.
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Государственные СМИ должны быть запрещены по закону и упразднены
на практике.