Viktor Nikolaevich
Monakhov
Associate Professor and Candidate of Legal Studies; Justice Advisor, Class I; Professor, Department of Information Journalism, Moscow State Linguistics University; Professor, Department of UNESCO, Copyright and Intellectual Property, Moscow; Judicial Advisor, Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.Education
1980-1983
Postgraduate program, All-Soviet National Institute of
Research on Soviet Legislation (VNIISZ), Ministry of Justice, USSR.
1970-1975
Law Department, Moscow State University.
Professional and
Political Experience
2000-2001
Judicial
Advisor, Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.
1999-2000 Acting Chairman of the Judicial Chamber on
Information Cases under the Russian President.
1994-2000
Member, Judicial Chamber on
Information Cases under the Russian President.
1993
Member, Third Federal Information
Court
1992-1994
Director, State Regional Inspection for
the Defense of Free Press and Mass Media, Ministry of Information and Press,
Russian Federation (for the seven regions of Northwest Russia).
1990-1993
Deputy, Leningrad City Council of
National Deputies; Assistant to the Representative of the Standing Deputy Commission
on Glasnost’ and Mass Media.
1983-1990
Associate Professor, Leningrad Togliatti
Institute of Engineering Economics.
1980-1983 Head
of Judicial Service, Leningrad Motor Transport Administration
1987-1990
One
of the founders and directors of the
Inter-professional Club “Perestroika,” Moscow and Leningrad. The club played a
serious role in the social reformation of the USSR and Russia in the 1980s and 1990s.
1992-2001
Member, Board of Directors,
Internews Moscow.
1995-2001 One of the founders and directors of the Moscow Lawyers Club. The club is one
of the most active centers of the legal profession in Moscow and Russia, and
the organizer of the annual distribution of the higher law award “Themis”
(whose laureates include Representative of the Supreme Court of Russia, V.
Lebed’; Representative of the Constitutional Court of Kyrgyzstan, Ch. Baekov;
Professor of the Sorbonne, M. Lesage; President of Bulgaria, P. Stoyanov;
Assistant to the General Secretary of the Council of Europe, H-C. Kruger; and others).
1999-2000 Member, Organizational Committee, “Law
and Internet” Annual Scientific Conference
Specialist in the area of mass media rights, citizens’ information
rights, and legal questions of new information technologies.
Further Achievements/ Awards
In 1983, I defended in
Moscow the first law dissertation in the USSR that was based on the necessity
of consolidating the constitutional basic information rights of citizens. Such
rights include the right to information and the right to defend one’s personal
information (now granted in articles 29 and 24 of the Constitution of the
Russian Federation).
I have considerable
experience in legislative work. and have participated in drafting laws On Glasnost’, 1987; On Press and Other Mass Media, 1988; On Television/ Radio Broadcasting, concerning laws of Russia,
Tajikistan, and Armenia, 1990s; Federal Laws of the Russian Federation, On Personal Information, 1988; On the Right of Access to Information,
1996-1999; co-authorship with M. Fedotov on model laws of subjects of the
Russian Federation, On Mass Media,
2000, reflecting the modern regime of regulatory rights concerning information
relations, with regard to the Internet.
I have authored numerous
articles on questions of rights in mass media and citizens’ information rights.
I am the co-author, with V.
Hoffman-Rim, of the German-Russian publication Rights of Radio and Television in Russia: On the Road to New
Organization of the Electronic Press. Saint Petersburg-Hamburg: 1994, 634
pgs.
I am the academic director
of international research and editor of the publication Law and Practice in Mass Media in
Countries of the CIS and Baltic States (a comparative analysis), GDF,
Moscow: Galeriya, 1999, 223 pgs.
I am academic director of
the project “Commission on the Free Access to Information” (KSDI) on behalf of
the Dzyaloshinkskii non-governmental organization, and co-editor of the
publication Russian and Foreign
Experience in Legal Regulation of Citizen’s Access to Government
Information, Moscow: KSDI, 1999,
248 pgs.
I am also director of the
initiative project for the publication in Russian of the fundamental rulings of
the Federal Constitutional Court, FRG, concerning the legal regulation of
activities of television and radio broadcasting in Germany. The collection will
be published by Russkii Mir in 2001.
I am a member of the Expert
Council to the Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation for
Information Policies, and expert of the Soros Open Society Institute, Moscow.
Contact Information
Phone: 007 (095) 206-16-32
Fax: 007 (095) 206-75 -84
Email: monachow@internews.ru