The list members of chamber (2012 year)

Convocation

2012  

Members of the Council	Council of the Civic Chamber
Commission Chair	Commission on support of mass media as a basis of civil society, freedom of speech and access to information
Member of the inter-commission workgroup	Inter-commission working group on drafting the Yearly report of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation of the state of civil society

• 14 april, 2014

  A journalist’s request might be equaled to a deputy’s one

  “This is a very good initiative, but I doubt it will really be implemented.”

• 06 march, 2014

  “Anti-Russia” journalists’ articles might be equaled to a treason state

  “Who will decide what is anti-Russian and what is not? The category of ‘patriotic’ or ‘non-patriotic’ from the legal viewpoint is at the level of ‘ I like it – I don’t like it,’ and it is anti-constitutional to put this into the frames of a law.”

• 21 january, 2014

  The bill on mass media foreign agents will be toughened and resubmitted to the State Duma

  “…it looks like a particular provocation against journalists… We surely will take this bill for expert examination.”

• 20 august, 2013

  Parliamentarians proposed to punish journalists for using information from social networks

  “This is an absolute delirium.”

• 08 august, 2013

  Immunity status to be provided to journalists

  “First of all, in order to protect journalists, it is necessary to completely investigate crimes committed against them.”

• 10 jule, 2013

  The State Duma intends to toughen punishment for attacking journalists

  “Numerous sad events showed that we do need such a bill.”

• 17 june, 2013

  SD adopted amendments to the Civil Code concerning mass media operation

  “This looks more like inquisition.”

• 21 november, 2012

  They proposed at the State Duma to bring back reacting to journalist investigations

  “This is an excellent initiative… It is not clear at this point how this idea could be implemented.”

• 18 october, 2012

  Roscomnadzor supported the idea of a journalist ethics charter

  “It should turn into a sort of the Hippocratic oath.”

• 27 jule, 2012

  Journalists might be prohibited to indicate nationalities of their articles’ characters

  “This draft law has no future”. 

• 18 jule, 2012

  A law on the “foreign agent” mass media was submitted to the State Duma

  “The most important thing is to make sure these amendments would not lead to elimination of the mass media receiving foreign grants but not involved in any manipulations”.

• 13 jule, 2012

  The State Duma approved the draft law on strengthening liability for slander

  “No doubt, slander by itself is quite an awful thing”.

• 13 june, 2012

  Bastrykin was accused of threatening Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Novaya Gazeta

  “It is necessary to carry out an investigation of this case. No doubt, it is important to hear Alexander Bastrykin’s opinion, the way how he is interpreting his conversation with the journalist.”

• 10 january, 2012

  Сan a murderer give an interview?

• 25 may, 2012

  Yandex against the Channel First?

  “This is not accurate to compare the audiences of Yandex and TV Channel    First ”.

• 22 may, 2012

  Judges might gain the right to comment their verdicts in the mass media

Blog

• 25 february, 2014

  Who needs him

  Yanukovich proved to be a weak politician and absolutely weak President. He proved to be a President unable to keep his word, make decisions, and build up his politics solid and final.

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