17 September 2002 18:30
RUSSIA: RFE/RL HOLDS ROUNDTABLE ON TATAR-LANGUAGE MEDIA.
On 27 August, Radio Azatliq (RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service) held a roundtable in Kazan, the capital of
Tatarstan, in cooperation with Tatarstan Radio and Television on the eve of the third World Tatar Congress in that city.
The roundtable -- which was also televised -- featured Rafael Khakimov, state adviser to the Tatarstan president and
director of the Kazan Institute of History; Damir Iskhakov, ethnologist at the Kazan Institute of History; Milewshe
Aituganova, deputy chairwoman of the Yanga Gasyr television and radio company in Kazan; Elfiya Minnulina, Tatar news
editor at the intertat.ru news site. Frank Williams, RFE/RL director of marketing and affiliate development, shared his
own knowledge of the growth of Welsh-language media in Britain. The session was chaired by Kerim Kamal, a broadcaster in
RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service, and was sponsored by RFE/RL's Regional Analysis. For an English-language
transcript, see http://www.regionalanalysis.org/events/briefings/2002/09/roundtables. asp. Copyright (c) 2002. RFE/RL,
Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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