The Law of the Russian Federation On Mass Media: innovation, trends, perspectives

Occupation: Director of the International Research and Educational Center «UNESCO Chair on Copyright, Neighboring, Cultural and Information Rights» NRU HSE
Affiliation: National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University)
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Journal name

Gosudarstvo i pravo

Edition

Issue 12

Pages

7-23

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Russian Mass Media Law, adopted on December 27, 1991. This Law is proposed to be considered as innovative, which laid the foundation for a number of innovations in national legal science and legislative practice. Among these innovations are: the author’s nature of drafting, consolidation of the thesaurus of the Law in a separate article of the Law, the establishment of a cumulative liability mechanism, etc. Over the next three decades, the Law has undergone numerous changes that have predetermined law enforcement practice. The article analyzes the trends of the ongoing transformation: the expansion of the concept of abuse of freedom of the media, expansion of diversity of types of mass media, etc. As part of considering the future prospects of the Law, the need is revealed to bring it into terminological compliance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Civil and other codes, to eliminate legal and logical defects formed in the process of its creation and subsequent adjustment. The necessity of the Law transformation into the Mass Communications Law is substantiated.

Keywords

mass media, Russian Media Law, proactive authors’ drafting, thesaurus of the law, cumulative responsibility, freedom of speech, censorship, abuse of freedom of the media, mass communications, Roskomnadzor

Received

14.09.2021

Publication date

21.12.2021

Number of characters

71747

Cite

GOST	Fedotov M. The Law of the Russian Federation “On Mass Media”: innovation, trends, perspectives // Gosudarstvo i pravo – 2021. – Issue 12 C. 7-23 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://gospravo-journal.ru/S102694520016755-1-1 (circulation date: 08.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S102694520016755-1
MLA	Fedotov, Mikhail "The Law of the Russian Federation “On Mass Media”: innovation, trends, perspectives." Gosudarstvo i pravo 12 (2021):7-23. DOI: 10.31857/S102694520016755-1
APA	Fedotov M. (2021). The Law of the Russian Federation “On Mass Media”: innovation, trends, perspectives. Gosudarstvo i pravo (12), pp.7-23 DOI: 10.31857/S102694520016755-1

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