His Excellency Boris N. Yeltsin President Moscow Russia Vienna, 26 July 1994 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) is most concerned about the adoption by the State Duma of Russia of a draft law which seeks to introduce new controls on state news broadcasts. The draft law on “state media coverage of the activities […]

Her Excellency Tansu Ciller Prime Minister of Turkey Prime Minister’s Office Ankara Turkey Vienna, 13 December 1993 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), representing over 2000 journalists and editors from leading newspapers, magazines, broadcasting organizations and news agencies in 68 countries, strongly condemns the banning of the pro-Kurdish daily, Özgür Ündem. We are informed […]

His Excellency Ali Khafi Chairman of the High Council of State Algiers Algeria Vienna, 9 December 1993 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) is deeply concerned about the recent campaign of terror directed against journalists in Algeria. We understand that at least eight journalists have been killed in Algeria this year by Islamic fundamentalists. […]

On the occasion of the “Publisher’s Day”, the annual conference of the Swedish Publishers Association (Svenska Tidningsutgivareförening, TU) the Director of the International Press Institute , Johann P. Fritz, gave a lecture on the power struggle over the media in Central and Eastern Europe. He stress that one could no longer speak of the general […]