PROGRAM of the international round table
«State, public and private mass-media in Russia and Germany:
federal and regional aspects»

Kazan, April, 8, 2005

Place of arrangement
Conference hall of the Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Kremlevskaya, 9

Organizers
Moscow Office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Kazan Institute of Federalism (KIF)

Round table opening

Greetings
Dr. Thomas Kunze, Director of the Moscow Office and the plenipotentiary on the Russian Federation of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Rafael Sibgatovich Khakimov, Director of scientific programs of KIF

Session I. Legal and economic-organizing bases of activity of the state, public and private mass-media in Germany and Russia.

Prof. Dr. Peter Schiwy, lawyer in the field of mass-media law, former director of the Northern German TV- radio company and RIAS Berlin
Legal, economic and organizational bases of activity of mass-media in Germany

Shaykhitdinova Svetlana Kayumovna, head of the department on journalism of the Kazan State University (KSU)
Legal, economic and organizational bases of activity of mass-media in Russia

Galyamov Rashid Zamirovich, general director of the news agency «Tatar–inform»
State, public and private mass-media in Tatarstan

Sychenkov Vladimir Vladimirovich, senior lecturer of the department on  theory and practice of electronic mass-media of KSU
Management of mass-media projects in Russia: problems, tendencies, prospects

Representatives of mass-media in Tatarstan have taken part in discussion:
Taisheva S.N. (Agency of RT on mass communication «Tatmedia»)
Timerzyanova M.F. (State TV- Radio Company «Tatarstan»)
Siraziev T.A. (TV- Radio Company «Ether»)

Peter Schiwy	From left to right: M.Aytuganova, M.Timerzyanova	R.Galyamov

Session II. Realization of ethnocultural (linguistic, religious) needs of national minorities for mass-media on regional and federal levels

Prof. Dr. Peter Schiwy, lawyer in the field of mass-media law, former director of the Northern German TV- radio company and RIAS Berlin
Minorities in the German TV- radio broadcasting

Aytuganova Milyausha Lyabibovna, deputy general director on creative questions of the TV- Radio Company «New century»
Bases of broadcasting of ethnocultural television programs on the Russian regions

Valeev Rimzil Salikhovich, director of the Kazan representation of radio «Azatliq» of «Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty» Corporation
Role of electronic mass-media and Internet in ethnocultural development of ethnoses of Russia

Sagitova Liliy Varisovna, director of the Institute of social researches and civil initiatives
Post-Soviet tatar-language press of Tatarstan: a problem of modernization

Abdrakhmanov Rafik Fayzievich, executive director of KIF
About political correctness and conformity of mass-media language to socio-political realities

R.Valeev	From left to right: L.Sagitova, S.Shaykhitdinova	V.Sychenkov

Discussion

Summation of a Round table
Dr. Thomas Kunze, Director of the Moscow Office and the plenipotentiary on the Russian Federation of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Rafael Sibgatovich Khakimov, Director of scientific programs of KIF