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Elections Committee Media Group Formed
The Central Election Commission approved the makeup of a working group on informational disputes and other issues of informational support for the elections. The 24-member group, which will examine complaints about media infractions during the State Duma election campaign, will not include representatives of political parties.
The group will include members and employees of the CEC, representatives of the Federal Mass Communications, Telecommunications and Preservation of Cultural Heritage Supervision Service (deputy chairman Sergey Sitnikov among them) and the Federal Assembly (such as deputy chairman of the State Duma Information Policy Committee Anbyar Karmeev, chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy Lyudmila Narusova and Federation Council member Rudik Iskuzhin). In addition, members of the media community will sit on the group, including chairman of the board of directors of the Rosbalt information agency Natalia Cherkesova, deputy director general of the All-Russia State Television and Radio Co. Andrey Bystritsky, head of informational programming at Channel One Kirill Kleimenov, editor-in-chief of Izvestia newspaper Vladimir Mamontov, vice president of Mediasoyuz Elena Zelinskaya and secretary of the Russian Journalists' Union Mikhail Fedotov.
“We are observing parity,” CEC chairman Vladimir Churov said with pride. “There are representatives of legislative and executive power, public associations and journalists.” Vadim Solovyev, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation saw it differently, however. “Why did two members of United Russia – Iskuzhin and Karmeev – make it into the group, and at least one member of Just Russia – Narusova? Where are the representatives of the Communist Party and LDPR?” he asked.
A center of media monitoring is also being set up by the CEC, to be headed by former commission head Alexander Ivanchenko. Churov strongly believes that supervision of the media's observation of election law has to be increased. Therefore, the monitoring center and working group may work together closely. Ivanchenko, however, denies that his center will have a “punitive function.” Working group member Zelinskaya promised that the group would see to it that the media worked “with colossal exactitude and responsibility.”
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All the Article in Russian as of Aug. 16, 2007
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