Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan is a country in transition, coping with the break up of the Soviet Union in the 1990s and more recently the fall of a president who exercised tight controls over the media. Amid difficult economic conditions and a tense political environment, Kyrgyz journalists have made significant progress in opening up the media sector towards a more public oriented service. IMS supports their work by pushing for media law and policy reform, providing trainings to strengthen the knowldege and skills of the journalists, and to build their capacity to produce and disseminate professional content.Archive
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- Successful International Media Law Summer School in Kyiv
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- Political extremism and terrorism, and media in Central Asia, with examples of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, 2008 in English
- Political extremism and terrorism, and media in Central Asia, with examples of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, 2008 in Russian
- Research project: Political extremism and terrorism, and media in Central Asia; a case study of Kyrgyzstan, 2008 in English
- Research project: Political extremism and terrorism, and media in Central Asia; a case study of Kyrgyzstan, 2008 in Russian
Successful International Media Law Summer School in Kyiv
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The sixth International Media Law Summer School in Kyiv brought together professionals from eight countries across the CIS region to learn about international media law and discuss the media situation in their home countries
By Antonina Cherevko, IMS Ukraine
The International Media Law Summer School in Kyiv, is not only a unique opportunity for CIS media lawyers to learn about international media law standards and the latest trends in the field, but also serves as a platform for cross-cultural discussion and exchange of experiences. Students at the summer school organised annually by the Media Law Institute since 2005 and supported by International Media Support, are always encouraged to talk about the media situation in their home countries.
This year's summer school in July gathered 22 participants from eight countries including Ukraine, Russian Federation, Moldova, Belarus, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Georgia. Students included academics, practicing lawyers, civil society activists and law students coming from the whole post-Soviet region, like for example professors of the Tajik National University, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy law students or activists from the NGOs in Kyrgyzstan and Georgia.
For three weeks, summer school participants studied legal regulation of television and radio broadcasting, protection of privacy and Freedom of Expression, access to information, court practices in defamation cases, Internet regulation, rules for electoral campaigns, protection of copy right and public morals and other issues vital for global and national media law systems.
Thematic events
Apart from the traditional classes, students were took part in a number of thematic events. They attended the expert seminar “Media ownership concentration and its influence over freedom of media and pluralism” as well as a roundtable titled “Guarantees for the editorial freedom of journalists and broadcasters”, another roundtable on privatisation of state print press and finally, they took part in a disscussion on about the future public broadcasting service in Ukraine in the Civil Council of the National Council of Ukraine on TV and Radio.
Summer school students were also treated to a tour of the Ukrainian Parliament, where they heard a lecture by Andriy Shevchenko, MP and deputy head of the Parliamentary Freedom of Speech Committee. Another visit was made to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine combined with the presentation done by the Government representative for the relations with the European Court of Human Rights.
Among the invited lecturers to this year's summer school were Boyko Boev, ARTICLE 19 lawyer based in UK, media experts Jeremy Davidson and Troels Larsen, UK, Olena Dmytrenko, lawyer of the European Court of Human Rights in France, Vasyl Paliyuk, judge of the Mykolaiv regional court of appeals, Ukraine, and law professor Oleksiy Minbaleyev, Russian Federation.
For more information about the event in Ukrainian and Russian please visit the Media Law Institute web-site at http://medialaw.kiev.ua/education/school/. For more information in English please contact Antonina Cherevko, IMS Programme Officer for Ukraine, at ac[snabela]i-m-s.dk or 380 50 410 27 68
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