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Letter: Pre-election clamp-down on the private media in Kazakhstan

H. E. Nursultan Nazarbayev President of Kazakhstan Almaty Kazakhstan Vienna, 10 November 1998 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, is most concerned about independent reports which indicate that the Kazakh government is clamping down on the private media in the run-up to the January 10 elections. […]

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Letter: Missouri School of Journalism named publisher of international magazine

At its meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, the Executive Board of the International Press Institute (IPI) entrusted the Missouri School of Journalism with the publication of the IPI Report, the quarterly international journalism magazine, IPI headquarters in Vienna announced today. IPI is a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from newspapers, magazines, broadcasting […]

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Letter: Repressive court action taken against independent magazine in Serbia

H.E. Slobodan Milosevic President of Yugoslavia Belgrade Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vienna, 24 October 1998 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI); the global network of editors and media executives, strongly condemns the repressive action taken against Evropljanin (European) magazine in a Belgrade court on October 23. IPI has been informed that the court found […]

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Letter: New information law threatens freedom of the press in Serbia

H.E. Slobodan Milosevic President of Yugoslavia Belgrade Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vienna, 21 October 1998 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) is most concerned about the severe threat to press freedom posed by the new information law of the Republic of Serbia, which was adopted by the Serbian Parliament on Tuesday, 20 October 1998. […]

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