RFE/RL (Un)Civil Societies Vol. 1, No. 7: excerpts
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RFE/RL (Un)Civil Societies
Vol. 1, No. 7, 29 June 2000
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GEORGIA
GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT DEPUTY WANTS TV PROGRAM FOR COMPATRIOTS IN
AZERBAIJAN. Georgia's parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee
chairman, Nino Burdjanadze, expressed concern on 27 June that the
Ministry of Communications and Transport is unable, due to financial
reasons, to air television programs for the Georgian minority living
in northwestern Azerbaijan, Caucasus Press reported. Georgian samizdat
documents in the early 1980s claimed the minority was deprived of
basic cultural facilities or Georgian-language education. ("RFE/RL
Newsline," 28 June)
INTERNATIONAL
YOUNG EUROPEANS TO DISCUSS DIVERSITY. The Minority Course 2000 for
young Europeans active in NGOs will take place from 2-29 July in
Denmark. Sixty-five Europeans representing 34 national, cultural, and
linguistic groups will meet to discuss minority rights and cultural
diversity. They will give particular attention to media and new
information technologies. The program for the sessions is available on
the web at
http://www.people.hojoster.dk. (MINELRES, 26 June)
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RUSSIA
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TATARSTAN HOSTS RUSSIAN FORUM OF NATIONAL MASS MEDIA... More than 700
Russian journalists met in Tatarstan this week to discuss the status
of media in the Russian Federation. Tatarstan President Mintimer
Shaimiev said that freedom of speech is "a universal human value, not
just a special right for journalists. There is no apparent
dictatorship or censorship under current conditions...this is an
advance for journalists and a great achievement for all of society."
He argued that journalists play a significant role in consolidating
the positive social forces of Russia and said he was grateful "to the
majority of Russian journalists for [its] constructive and sometimes
critical attitude to the initiatives, problems, and successes of our
republic." ("RFE/RL Tatar-Bashkir Weekly Review," 15-22 June 2000)
.AS WELL AS A MEETING OF TATAR MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES. Meanwhile, the
World Congress of Tatars hosted on 21 June a meeting of Tatar media
representatives from across the Middle Volga region. Its delegates
agreed to work together to promote Tatar culture. Two guests - Kyrgyz
writer Chingiz Aytmatov and Kazakh author Olzhas Suleymenov - stressed
the importance of the Russian language in tying the nations of this
region together.
("RFE/RL Tatar-Bashkir Weekly Review," 15-22 June 2000)
SERBIA
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MOB ATTACKS SERBIAN MONKS, RUSSIAN TV CREW. Ethnic Albanians stoned a
group of Serbian Monks and a Russian television crew near the Kosovar
town of Prizren on 27 June, AFP reported. UN peacekeepers said the
crew was attacked while making a film on the monks at the Svete
Bogorodice monastery in the village of Musutiste, some 15 kilometers
northeast of Prizren. A KFOR spokesman said the Kosovar Albanians
surrounded the group and demanded that one of the monks be handed over
because, they said, he had committed war crimes. ("RFE/RL Newsline,"
28 June)
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(Compiled by Catherine Cosman)
(Editorial Assistant: Yulia Aleksandrovskaya)
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