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 Accepting
the Inevitable
Vremya Novostei, January 14, 2002
Not surprisingly, there is some weariness in politicians’
comments about TV6 – most were used during the recent
conflict around NTV. These two stories have a lot
in common - the same team headed by the same leader,
Yevgeni Kiselev, faces the same situation again.
  Domestic
and Foreign Policy Challenges in Russia Today Summary
of the Remarks of Grigory Yavlinsky Delivered at the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Washington
DC
January 30, 2001.
Grigory Yavlinsky was elected
to the Russian Duma in 1993 and was one of the founders
of the Yabloko faction. Yabloko is one of the principal
democratic parties in Russia and was established as
a formal party in the Russian Duma in December 1998.
Mr. Yavlinsky has been a leading liberal voice in
Russian politics for the past ten years and a critic
of the Russian government's crackdown on independent
media, excesses in Chechnya, and corruption. He has
twice run for the Russian Presidency, in 1996 and
in 2000.
The
Right-Wing and the Left-Wing Find Common Interests.
Duma deputies want the Federation Council to be elected.
By Olga Tropkina, Nezavisimaya Gazeta,
January 29, 2002
Several factions of the
Duma are holding consultations. The idea is to initiate
amendments to the Constitution. The centrists are
steering clear of the consultations for the time being.
As always, they are waiting for a nod from the president.
Yabloko
Rejects Putin's 'Managed Democracy'
By Grigory Yavlinsky, St.Petersburg
Times, January 25, 2002
THE most important positive political development
of 2001 is, without doubt, the set of decisions taken
by the country's leadership in the wake of Sept. 11.
YABLOKO
opposes the draft military reform proposed by the
Union of Right-Wing Forces
Nezavisimaya Gazeta, January 25, 2002
A big scandal is imminent in relations between the
Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) and YABLOKO. The
military reforms lobbied by the SPS would appear to
be the cause of serious contention between the two
political structures, which intended to begin drawing
up a joint electoral list for the Duma less than a
year ago. Grigory Yavlinsky's party officially announced
that the military reform proposed by the SPS, providing
for the transition to a six-month term of service
was "counterproductive politically and generally
groundless.”
Yabloko
Offers Alternative Conception of Housing and Communal
Reform
RIA "OREANDA", January 25,
2002
Moscow. The Russian Democratic Party "Yabloko"
and its faction in the State Duma continue advocating
a review of the state programme of housing and communal
reform.
Bush
concerned about shutdown of TV6
Associated Press,
January 25, 2002
WASHINGTON - The shutdown of independent Moscow station
TV6 is a continuing concern for President George W.
Bush, the White House said Thursday.
TV6
mulls closure, prepares appeal
The Russia Journal,
January 25, 2002
MOSCOW - Directors of the largest Russian television
station outside Kremlin control said Monday they could
start winding up the company next month, if a last-ditch
legal appeal of a court closure order failed.
Everyone
Has the Right
Vremya Novostei,
January 24, 2002
No one should have a monopoly over the airwaves; and
even ownership rights may be restricted to ensure
that this is the case. This was the considered conclusion
of the Union of Right-WIng Forces (SPS) faction of
the Duma, which has discussed the conflict over TV-6.
The SPS leader Boris Nemtsov even has a formula for
demonopolizing the media industry - which he has already
shared with President Vladimir Putin.
TV-6
team founds new legal entity
RosBusinessConsulting,
January 24, 2002
MOSCOW - OOO TV-6 has been registered in the Moscow
Registration Chamber, reported TV-6 spokeswoman Tatyana
Blinova.
Temporary
Friendship or Eternal Union?
 Obschaya
Gazeta, January 24, 2002
Our party has from the outset ultimately backed the
position expressed by President Vladimir Putin in
his television address to the nation on September
11, 2001, - solidarity with the US in the fight against
international terrorism, a course towards rapprochement
with the West and the establishment of a partnership
and preferably an alliance.
Alexei
Arbatov on the proposal to punish the relatives of
terrorists
Ekho Moskvi radio
station, January 23, 2002
'Anchor: News from the Duma: the Duma has drafted
a law that has engendered many disputes...'
Vladimir
Lukin, member of the Yabloko faction, on halting the
broadcasting of TV-6
NTV.RU,
January 23, 2002
"For the first time since Brezhnev's period I
have a feeling of constant and lasting shame for my
country." This was the reaction of the Deputy
Speaker of the State Duma and member of the Yabloko
faction Vladimir Lukin to the closure of the TV-6
television channel. Lukin expressed his opinion on
the Ekho Moskvi radio station.
Deputy
of the State Duma Valery Ostanin: Liquidation of TV-6
is not a dispute between economic subjects, it is
the manifestation of political will at the top
RosBusinessConsulting,
January 23, 2002
Liquidation of TV-6 is not a dispute between economic
subjects, this is manifestation of thepolitical will
at the top.
Putin
snipes at Berezovsky in media row
Reuters
, January 23, 2002
MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin appears determined
to rid Russian television of the influence of powerful
exiled tycoons - even at the risk of damaging his
diplomatic credentials with the West.
Closure
of TV6 sparks wide concern
Reuters
, January 23, 2002
MOSCOW - Russia abruptly pulled the plug on its only
nationwide independent television station on Tuesday,
giving the Kremlin a monopoly of the airwaves for
the first time since the Soviet era and sparking international
concern.
All-sports
replaces TV6 broadcasting
Associated
Press, January 22, 2002
MOSCOW - Russia's TV6 broadcasting was replaced by
all-sports news programming Tuesday, hours after authorities
took TV6, the last independent, national station,
off the air.
TV6
Case Sets a Bad Example
The Moscow
Times, January 15, 2002
The liquidation of TV6 is not, as much of the Western
media insists on describing it, the end of independent
national television in Russia. TV6 is independent
of the government, but it is controlled by Boris Berezovsky,
who openly acknowledges that it is politics, not business,
that drives his interest in the television station.
TV6
Team Asks to Stay on the Air By Robin Munro Staff
Writer
The Moscow
Times, January 15, 2002
The management of TV6 made a proposal Monday that
it hopes will allow it to preserve its journalistic
team and continue running the television station,
which a court last week ordered closed. TV6 management
wrote a letter to Press Minister Mikhail Lesin giving
up the station's broadcasting licence so it could
form a new company in time to bid for the license
when a tender is held in April. In the meantime, it
asked to be allowed to continue broadcasting.
Media
Freedom Discussed in Russia
Associated
Press, January 14, 2002
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's top broadcasting
official said Monday that his office is working on
bidding procedures for the broadcast license held
by TV6, the independent TV station that lost a legal
battle to prevent its closure.
Russian
Authorities Mull TV6 License
Associated
Press, January 14, 2002
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's top broadcasting official said
Monday that his office is working on bidding procedures
for the broadcast license held by TV6, the independent
TV station that lost a legal battle to prevent its
closure.
TV6
Ruling Angers Liberal Politicians
The Moscow
Times, January 14, 2002
A number of prominent politicians lashed out at the
Higher Arbitration Court's decision Friday to liquidate
TV6, calling it a political move that spelled trouble
for other independent media.
Lukoil
Co. Wants to Buy TV Rights
By ANGELA
CHARLTON, Associated Press Writer, January 12, 2002
MOSCOW (AP) - After persuading a court to shut down
Russia's largest independent television network, a
subsidiary of the country's biggest oil company said
Saturday it wants to buy the channel's broadcasting
rights.
Russian
TV Station Ordered to Close
Associated Press,
January 11, 2002
MOSCOW (AP) - A court ordered the closure of the last
national television network outside the government's
control Friday - a decision prompting concern about
media freedom in Russia.
Four
Detained During Moscow Rally
Associated Press,
January 8, 2002
PMOSCOW (AP) - Four organizers of a demonstration
against a journalist's conviction for treason were
detained and are due in court Wednesday, Russian media
reported.
AUTUMN
OF THE DUMA CENTRISTS
Nezavisymaya Gazeta,
December 29, 2001
The autumn session of the third Duma ended on December
27. It became the place where the president and the
Cabinet exploited the capacities of a parliamentary
majority to the utmost. This became particularly clear
over the last three months, when the Kremlin administration
virtually stopped relying mostly on Unity and balanced
at the same time between the left and right in the
Duma. When this method of controlling the Duma was
abandoned, the communists and agrarians found themselves
outside virtually all vital parliamentary functions.
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