Center for Civil Society International ([email protected])
Fri, 26 Jul 1996 14:55:29 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Eric Johnson <[email protected]>
Friends,
Internews Russia has established a WWW site dedicated to the NIS media:
http://www.internews.ras.ru. We use a Netra which Sun Russia donated, the
project is supported by The Eurasia Foundation, and the Soros Internet project
is providing Internet connectivity.
As they always say, "it's under construction". We're working with NAT, Gong,
the Union of Journalists, ZiP, Nicholas Pilugin, RAPIC, the Duma mass media
committee, and many more to get as much material on-line as possible. There's
not much yet; and the connection is unstable--our 2-Mbps radio-modem link is
down about ten percent of the time--but our server is up and running; if you
can't get through, try again in a few hours. The Moscow infrastructure is
still very much being born.
Our goal is to provide information for the NIS media and to help the NIS media
enter the Internet world. So most of what we have is in Russian. You'll need
CP1251 Russian fonts (Windows Russian) to see it at this point. (We're working
on automatic conversion to other code pages.) There's an FTP site too.
If any of you have any suggestions of what you'd like to see on-line--or any
offers to provide materials--please let me know, and I'll work on it!
At this point the only thing likely to be of much interest is the texts (in
English and/or Russian) of several NIS mass media and/or broadcasting laws, as
well as commentary on them.
By the end of the summer we hope to make available our internal NIS-wide
database of independent broadcasters.
Incidentally, our Ukraine office has its own WWW site with information about
Ukrainian media, at http://www.internews.kiev.ua. General Internews
information can be found at http://www.internews.org (might be down this
weekend for system repairs).
Best,
Eric Johnson
Internews
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