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    MONITORING OF MASS MEDIA: VIEW FROM ASIDE

    Azat Artsakh - Republic of Nagorno Karabakh (NKR)
    18 June 2004

    With the assistance of the international organization "Article 19"
    the Stepanakert Press Club organized training for the representatives
    of the Stepanakert mass media. This is another event in the process
    of democratization of the society. Training began on June 15. At the
    training was present the representative of "Article 19", coordinator
    on South Caucasus Irina Smolina. The training was conducted by the
    deputy chairman of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine, expert of the
    organization "Article 19" Alexey Koshel and the representative of the
    Yerevan Press Club Elina Poghosbekian. Of the Artsakh mass media were
    invited representatives of the republic newspaper "Azat Artsakh",
    Public Radio and TV, official organ of the Armenian Revolutionary
    Federation "Aparazh", newspaper "Hayrenik" as, well as members of the
    Press Club. The first day of the training was mainly devoted to the
    experience of the mass media of conducting public opinion polls,
    monitoring. In reference to this topic Alexey Koshel and Elina
    Poghosbekian raised a number of acute problems which were actively
    discussed by the participants of the training. At the end of the first
    day the participants of the training were offered to take part in a
    game and monitor Artsakh mass media. According to the experts, both
    teams managed to keep up to the requirements of the game. The second
    day was devoted to such important issues as the ethic, the moral code
    of the journalist. Both chairperson-experts spoke on these topics. On
    the same day due to the efforts of the organizers of the training the
    meeting with the chairman of the NKR Central Election Committee Sergey
    Davtian took place. The chairman of the CEC pointed out the role of
    the mess media during elections. "Without the mass media elections
    are impossible," he said. S. Davtian spoke about certain drawbacks of
    the law "On Elections to Municipalities". Nevertheless, the CEC will
    meet the requirement of providing equal rights and conditions for
    all the candidates. During the second day the task of the activities
    of lawyers and their services was discussed which is important for
    maintaining trust between the mass media and the reader or viewer.

    SUSANNA BALAYAN. 18-06-2004
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