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Final Re~ort on Cooperative Agreement 118-A-00-97-00274-00, December 2000 page 24 Russian-Iranian nuclear contacts; Disposal of weapons-grade plutonium. Because of its long experience in assisting Russian journalists in covering such issues going back to 1992, NPI has become the forum of choice for many organizations and individuals wanting to address the media. For example, the influential Council on Foreign and Defense Policy presented all of its new studies and reports at NPI. Domestic Issues and Politics Finally, NPI of course covered the full range of domestic issues and the debates - ideological, political, and other - among Russia's leaders, both at the regional and national level. Despite the prevalence of organizations hosting press conferences in Russia (especially in Moscow), NPI was unique in presenting not only key leaders, but also informed debate and discussion. Other venues rarely present more than one viewpoint. Among the political leaders who spoke at NPI during the Cooperative Agreement were the following: Sergei Aleksashenko, deputy chairman of the Central Bank; Sergei Baburin. Vice-Speaker of the State Duma; Yury Boldyrev, chairman of the Accounting Bureau of the State Duma and leader of the Yury Boldyrev Bloc; Irina Khakamada, leader of the Right Cause party; Sergei Kovalev, State Duma deputy and former Human Rights Commissioner; Mikhail Lapshin, chairman of the Agrarian Party; Vladimir Lukin, chairman of the State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee; Oleg Morozov, chairman of the "Russian Regions" deputies group; Boris Nemtsov, leader of the Right Cause party; Valeria Novodvorskaya, leader of the Democratic Union; Boris Pankin, former Minister of Foreign Affairs; Roman Popkovich, chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee; Yuly Rybakov, chairman of Democratic Russia; Marina Salye, chair of the Free Democrats of Russia; Anatoly Sobchak, former Mayor of St. Petersburg; Vladimir Tikhonov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy; Konstantin Titov, governor of Samara Oblast; Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the YaBLoko party Konstantin Zatulin, chairman of the Derzhava Movement; Tamara Zlotnikova, chair of the State Duma Ecology Committee; Vladimir Zorin, chairman of the State Duma Nationality Committee; Center for War, Peace, and the News Media -New York University Chapter 3: NPI Press Centers
Final Report on Cooperative Agreement 118-A-00-97-00274-00, December 2000 page 25 3.3.2 Civil Society and Human Rights Programs Letter from Aleksandr Nikitin When I found inyselfzn thzs veiy conzplex situatzon [arrested for treason as a result of his eizvzroninental work], I fully expected that no orgaizzzatiorz would be willrrzg to publicly discuss my case Everyone, after all, understands what it means to tangle with the security organs. But there was zndeedsuch an organization - the Narzonal Press Institute, formerly called the Russzan-Anzerican Press and Infonnatloiz Center Thzs was extremely important It was one of the turnmgpoints that transformed "my case" into "my vzctoly " The security organs fear openness. And when we began to dzscuss this case at the National Press Instztute, they became confused They began holdlng their own press coizferences in response. but most people went to the briefings at the National Press Institute I don't know how my case would have unfolded if you hadn 't done what you did. I don 't know $1 would be szttlng 1ze1.e in my office or in some other place I thznk that such organzzations as the Natzoizal Press Instztute are the ones that we nzust support, which gzve societ)? the opportunity to ask questions and to express all ~ ts zdeas openly. At the Natzonal Press Institute, there is no censorshzp After all, the National Press Institute doesn't even close zts doors to the securzty organs NPI constantly znvzted them to take part zn press brze$ngs about my case and to contribute their perspectzves. However, the security police ignored these opportunzties. I would like to close by wzshzng the National Press Institute success and many, many years of continued work -Aleksandr Nikitin, Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience Without . . the NPIpress center that you run, many zndependeizt NGOs would be completely deprived of the opportunzty to appeal to the public, to convey to the media informatzon about an enormous number of important facts of Russzaiz llfe from a letter to NPI from Yelena Bonner, Ludmila Alexeyeva, Serge1 Grigoryants, and other human rights leaders To further its goal of promoting the development of and active public participation in civil society in Russia, NPI established two key priorities for its briefing program. First, NPI aimed to include in its briefings as wide as possible a representation of Russia's emerging NGO community and to cover as many as possible of the issues of importance to this community. Second, it served as a forum for the explication of human rights issues and abuses - particularly in St. Petersburg and Moscow, where the human rights communities are better developed. Specifically in the area of human rights, NPI organized an increasing number of topical briefings as the Cooperative Agreement period went on. During this period, NPI worked with at least 55 human-rights organizations in Moscow (the list is attached as Appendix 2) and an ever-increasing number in the regions. NPI was the only press platform in Russia that devoted such sustained attention to this subject. Throughout the Cooperative Agreement period, NPI devoted particular attention to the plight of rehgees from the ongoing conflict in Chechnya. Other important topics that frequently discussed were conscientious objectors, torture and other violations by the police, conditions in Russian prisons and orphanages, and racism and the persecution of non-Slavic Russian citizens. Center for War, Peace, and the News Media - New York University Chapter 3: NPI Press Centers
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