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OSCE conference discusses Tajik media legislation
Publishing date: 18 December 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism
DUSHANBE, 18 December 2002- "We need to improve our media legislation using the experiences of European and other countries", said Ibragim Usmanov, State Adviser to the President of Tajikistan, at an OSCE-organized...
OSCE welcomes hand-over of Serbian broadcasting agency premises
Publishing date: 18 December 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Media freedom and development
BELGRADE, 18 December 2002- The OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) welcomed the official hand-over of the keys to the new premises of the recently established Republican Broadcasting Agency. The...
New OSCE Academy in Kyrgyzstan inaugurated
Publishing date: 18 December 2002
Content type: Press release
BISHKEK, 18 December 2002- A new study and research institute on regional security issues, the OSCE Academy, was inaugurated in Kyrgyzstan yesterday. "This Academy is a unique institution of a new type that will facilitate the development of...
Journalists should not be imprisoned for what they write, say OSCE and Council of Europe
Publishing date: 16 December 2002
Content type: Press release
BELGRADE, 16 December 2002- The OSCE and the Council of Europe responded to the imposition of a one-month prison term on a former editor-in-chief of the Montenegrin daily "Dan" by sending a letter to the authorities of the FRY and
OSCE Media Representative concerned at human rights situation in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 12 December 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 12 December 2002- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, voiced his concern over the recent arrest in Turkmenistan of Russian journalist Leonid Komarovsky, allegedly in connection with an attack...
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly delegation pays four-day visit to Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 4 December 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development
BISHKEK, 4 December 2002- A delegation of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA), headed by the Finnish MP, Paula Kokkonen, is currently paying a visit to Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek to meet the country's president...
OSCE holds workshop on Media Freedom and the Internet
Publishing date: 3 December 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 2 December 2002- Freedom of the Media and the Internet was the topic of a one-day workshop held by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, in Vienna. Six experts from Europe and the United States were invite...