Andrei Richter is Professor Researcher at the
Comenius University in Bratislava, former senior adviser and director of the Office of the
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in Vienna.
Born in 1959 in
Kharkiv
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, he has university degrees in
law, foreign languages, and a
doctorate degree
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in journalism. In 2015 he became a habilitated professor of mass media studies in Slovakia. Richter was a
Commissioner
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In practice, the title of commissioner has evolved to in ...
of
the International Commission of Jurists (
ICJ
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) in 2000-2013 an
co-chair of the Law Sectionof th
International Association for Media and Communication Researchin 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
Lomonosov Moscow State University
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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
UNESCO
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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
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and Eduard Sagalaev, Visiting Professor in Journalism at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, and a visiting researcher at the Gannett Media Studies Center at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, 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
Central European University in Budapest.
Permanently lives in
Vienna
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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 InstituteInternational Association for Media and Communication ResearchAndrei Richter for The Guardian-1Andrei Richter for The Guardian-2Andrei Richter for Voice of Russia
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1959 births
Russian lawyers
National University of Kharkiv alumni
Living people
Academic staff of Comenius University