Monakhov Victor Nikolaevich

Candidate of jurisprudence, assistant professor,
The adviser of justice of the 1st class.

Victor N. Monakhov is the assistant professor, candidate of jurisprudence, adviser of justice of the 1st class, professor of the chair “Journalism and public relations” at the Moscow State Linguistic University and UNESCO chair “on the copyright and other branches of Intellectual Property Right” (Moscow), a Senior research worker of a sector of the Information Law, Institute of Civil Law Russian Academy of Sciences.

Education

1970 - 1975     faculty of law at Lomonosov Moscow State University
1980 - 1983     postgraduate at VNIISZ at the Ministry of Justice of the USSR

 

 

Professional and political activity

2004 - up to now	Senior research worker of a sector of the Information Law at the Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences
2002 - 2004	Director of the project “Legal audit of Mass media” ANO “Internews”
2001	One of the founders of St.-Petersburg club in Moscow (Club of piskvich)
2000 - 2002	The adviser of the Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation
1999 - 2000	Acting Chairman of the Judicial Court on information disputes at the President of Russia
1995	One of the founders and heads of the Moscow Club of lawyers – one of the active centres of a legal life of Moscow and Russia, the organizer of annual presentation of the higher legal award "Femida" (among its winners are the Chairman of the Supreme Court of Russia V. Lebedev, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Kyrgyzstan Ch. Baekova, professor of Sorbonn M. Lessazh, the President of Bulgaria P. Stoyanov, the Deputy Secretary general of the Council of Europe G.K. Kruger, the mayor of Moscow Ju. Luzhkov, et. al.)
1994 - 2000	Member of the Juditial court on information disputes at the President of Russia
1993	Member of Federal Information Court of arbitration
1992 - 1994	Chief of Regional State inspection on protection of freedom of press and mass-media at the Ministry of information and press of the Russian Federation (7 regions in the Northwest of Russia)
1992	One of the founders of ANO “Internews” (Moscow)
1990 - 1993	The Deputy of Leningrad city Council of People's Deputies, Deputy Chairman of the permanent deputy commission on publicity and mass-media
1987 - 1990	One of the founders and heads of interprofessional clubs "Reconstruction" in Moscow and Leningrad, that played an important role in public transformations in the USSR and Russia in late 1980’ and early 1990’.
1983 - 1990	Assistant professor at Toljatti Leningrad Engineering-Economic Institute
1980 - 1983	Chief of legal service at Senior Leningrad Management of Motor Transport

V.N. Monakhov is an expert in the field of mass-media law, the information law for citizens, legal problems of new information and communication technologies.

In 1983 he defended the legal thesis in Moscow being the first in the USSR thus proving a necessity of the constitutional base for main information rights for citizens – the right for information and protection of personal information (now articles 29 and 24 in the Constitution of the Russian Federation).

He has a great experience of legislative work. He participated in the development of such projects of laws of the USSR as “About publicity” (1987), “About the press and other mass-media” (1988); laws of Russia, Tajikistan, Armenia “About tele-radio broadcasting” (1990’), Federal Law of the Russian Federation “About personal data” (1998), “About the right for access to the information” (1996-2003); as the co-author of M. Fedotov he developed and published the author's project of the modeling law of the subject of the Russian Federation “About mass- media” (2000); in 2004 he prepared a project of law for Novosibirsk region “About the Representative on Information Rights in Novosibirsk region and Information Chamber of Novosibirsk region”. He is the author of numerous articles on the problems of mass-media and information rights of citizens.

V.N. Monakhov is the Russian coeditor of the German-Russian edition – V.Hoffman-Rome, V.Monahov “The radio and TV Right in Russia. On a way to a new organization of electronic press”. St.-Petersburg – Hamburg, 1994, 634 p.

He is a supervisor of the international research and the editor of “Laws and practice of mass-media in CIS and Baltic countries (comparative analysis)”. FZG, M, “Galeria” Publishing house, 1999, 223 p.

He is a supervisor of KSDI project and the coeditor of “The Russian and foreign experience of legal regulation of the access of citizens to the governmental information”. M, KSDI, 1999, 248 p.

He is a laureate of the Honorary medal "Social recognition" (2000) for great personal contribution to the development of legislation on the mass-media, contributing to the formation of legal democratic state.

He is the author - the compiler of collections “Mass-media and Internet: problems of legal regulation”, М, Ecoprint, 2003, -320p. and “Freedom of the mass information in Internet: legal conditions of realization” M. Galerija, 2005, 416 p.

V.N. Monakhov is a Member of the Advisory Council of the State Duma Committee of the Russian Federation on security. He is an expert of the Council of Europe and OSCE on legal issues of information. He is a member of the Russian Committee of the international UNESCO Program “The Information for everybody”. He is a scientific adviser of the international program “The global initiative on Internet politics” (GIPI), a Member of the Council of Noncommercial partnership “Electronic libraries” (http://www.elibra.ru), the Deputy Chairman of the Chamber of media-audience of Public board on complains of the press (http://www.presscouncil.ru).

V.N. Monakhov is a member of the Board of guardians of Publicity Protection Fund (http://www.gdf.ru) and the chairman of a revision committee of St.-Petersburg humanitarian-politological centre "Strategy" (http://www.strategy-spb.ru).

 

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