Fwd: RFE/RL: Latvian President Says Language Requirements for Media May Change

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Subject: Fwd: RFE/RL: Latvian President Says Language Requirements for Media May Change

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Fwd: RFE/RL: Latvian President Says Language Requirements for
Media May Change


RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 5, No. 74, Part II, 17 April 2001
LATVIAN PRESIDENT SAYS LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS FOR MEDIA MAY CHANGE.
Vaira Vike-Freiberga told a press and business club meeting organized
by the magazine "Karjera" (Career) that current provisions requiring
media to use Latvian for at least 75 percent of their broadcasts are
aimed at strengthening the position of the state language, but that
"laws governing the language use in media are not everlasting and it
is quite possible that the provisions will change in a couple of
years," BNS reported on 14 April. Latvian National Radio and
Television Council (NRTC) Chairman Ojars Rubenis said that more
lenient state language-use requirements could be introduced for radio
companies, but he regards the requirements for television companies as
optimum. The NRTC, however, has filed a court claim to stop "Bizness &
Baltija" radio from simply retransmitting Russkoye Radio's broadcasts
from Moscow. SG
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>From the moderator: The last sentence of the info above is not fully
accurate. In fact, the NRTC has demanded suspension of the brodcasting
licence of the "Bizness & Baltija" radio for regularly exceding 25%
limit for broadcasting in other languages than the state language. The
trial initially scheduled for mid-March has been postponed to mid-May
(for more details, see Minority issues in Latvia, No.25,
http://racoon.riga.lv/minelres/archive//02272001-06:16:11-23883.html )
Boris 

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