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SREDA is a Russian-language monthly which aims to cover the media scene in Russia, Ukraine and Europe. It is addressed primarily to decision-makers in media-related areas and to media researchers. SREDA is funded by a grant from the EU Democarcy Initiative.

SREDA
The Russian - European Media Magazine
#5 (11), May 1999
Annotated Contents

EDITORIAL

Alexei Pankin, Two Foes of Freedom: State and War
Comments on the Charter of Television and Radio Broadcasters, an ethical code adopted by leading national and regional broadcasting companies to prevent state intervention in the regulation of broadcasting content.

MAIN THEME: World Media and the Yugoslav War

Semyon Liberman, Russian TV: Between Propaganda and Information
Statistical data and content analysis of the coverage of the Kosovo crisis and reactions to it by Russia^�s four main national channels from March 24 to the end of April.

Pavel Zhavoronkov, Moscow Newspapers: Westernisers vs Slavophiles
Content analysis of six leading Moscow-based dailies and weeklies

Dusan Reljic, A Plague on Both Your Houses
Shortcomings and bias in coverage of the crisis by German, British and Serb media. The author is a former Editor-in-Chief of Tanjug, the official Yugoslav news agency. He had to leave his country in 1991 after being abducted by the Serb secret police.

Vladimir Skachco, Through the Prism of Electoral Interests
The Ukrainian media cover the conflict strictly in line with the interests of their political and economic masters.

TV & RADIO

Tim Williams, Russian Radio: an Outsider's View
Senior manager of BBC-MPM assesses the state of the radio industry in Russia

Natalya Oryshuk, FM-radio in Kiev
Profiles of all FM-radio stations broadcasting in the capital of the Ukraine

VGTRK Public Observation Council: Draft Statute and Comments
The author of these comments, Vladimir Baturov, former assistant to VGTRK Chairman, feels that the proposed Observation Council looks more like another government body than the voice of the public. In any case it has no real power.

Olga Yermolaeva, Who and What Watches and Listens in St.Petersburg
Developments on the TV and radio broadcasting market after the August crisis.

PRESS

Margarita Kechkina, 109 Moscow periodicals
Analysis of the dynamics of the Moscow press market in the second half of 1998

Olga Rachkova, Expensive and Economical Ways of Auditing Print-Runs
An appraisal of the National Circulation Service founded by the Russian Union of Journalists and the Circulation Verification Service set up in Kirov, a city on the upper Volga.

Derk Sauer, Crisis Is A Good Time For Learning Lessons
An interview with CEO of the Independent Media, Russia's most successful media group

SPECIAL SECTION: MEDIA IN NOVOSIBIRSK

Profile of media in the city which claims to be the capital of Siberia: the print media and distribution system, television, radio, the advertising market, media-government relations. 8 articles and lots of statistics.

INVESTMENTS

William Dunkerley, To Train Managers
A critical look at US government media assistance programmes

CONCENTRATION

Ivan Nikolchev, Exit CME
A story of the take-over of the Central European Media Enterprises, an American-owned media empire, by another media company, SBS Broadcasting.

NEWS FROM Novosty SMI

A bi-weekly media news bulletin rates the main events of April on the Moscow media scene.

WORLD MEDIA NEWS

CALENDAR OF MEDIA EVENTS

In the next issue:

New Criteria for Issuing Broadcast Licences
An insider's look at how experts come up with an official appraisal of the national advertising market.

Media in Rostov-on-Don

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