Andrei Richter is Professor Researcher at the

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in Bratislava, former senior adviser and director of the Office of the

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in Vienna. Born in 1959 in

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, he has university degrees in

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, foreign languages, and a

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in journalism. In 2015 he became a habilitated professor of mass media studies in Slovakia. Richter was a

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of the International Commission of Jurists (

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) in 2000-2013 an
co-chair of the Law Section
of th
International Association for Media and Communication Research
in 1996-2010. Richter was director and founder of the Media Law and Policy Institute (also known as Media Law and Policy Center, Institute for Information Law) and edited the only regular publication on media law in Russian

, 1994-2011, and co-edited the only bulletin on media law in the region
Post-Soviet Media Law and Policy Newsletter
1993–99, and sits on editorial boards of a number of international journals on communications and the media. For about 20 years he taught media law and foreign media/journalism classes at

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Faculty of Journalism, serving for the last few years as its chair for media law and modern history of journalism. He authored over 250 publications on freedom of the media, media law and policy in Russian, English, Albanian, Armenian, Azeri, Bosnian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Slovak, German and French, including the only standard textbook on media law for journalism students of Russian colleges and universities (2002, 2009 and 2016), a textbook on online media law (2014), a book of reading materials on media law for students and journalists (2004, 2011), a UNESCO textbook on international standards of media freedom (2011, in Russian) and a

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publication – a book titled
Post-Soviet Perspective on Censorship and Freedom of the Media
' (2007). In the 1990s Richter was the Moscow Representative and later - a member of th
International Commission on Radio and Television Policy
(co-chaired by Pres.

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and Eduard Sagalaev]=), Visiting Professor in Journalism at

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, and a visiting

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at the

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Media Studies Center at

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, NYC, where he is still an expert. He is an adjunct professor at the Webster Private University in Vienna, and a non-resident fellow at the

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in Budapest. Permanently lives in

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References

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9625-7577 Scopus Author ID: 24587941500 Web of Science: GLV-3429-2022 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=BRC6ANUAAAAJ&hl=ru Academia.edu: https://ceu.academia.edu/AndreiRichter

Sources

Moscow Media Law and Policy Institute

International Association for Media and Communication Research

Andrei Richter for The Guardian-1

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Andrei Richter for Voice of Russia
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