History and Statutory Regulation of Domestic Mass Media
The chair is Dr. Olga Minaeva.
There are 8 people working for the department.
The department’s main research fields include:
• History of the Russian journalism from 1917 till now;
• History of censorship;
• Legal basis for national mass media;
• Professional ethics of a journalist.
The department provides training for specialists, bachelors, masters in the following courses:
• History of the Russian Journalism;
• History of Russia;
• Mass Media Law;
• Author’s Right;
• Deontology.
Many of well-known textbooks and monographs were written by members of the department. To name a few:
I.A. Pankeyev Agreement in the Author’s Right of the Russian Federation. Moscow, 2009;
A.G. Richter Legal Basis of Journalism: Textbook. Moscow, 2009;
A.G. Richter Freedom of Mass Information in Post-Soviet Space. Moscow, 2007.
R.P.Ovsepian History of the Newest National Journalism: February 1917- Beginning of the 21st century: Textbook. Moscow, 2005;
O.D. Minaeva Imperial Moscow University in the Newspaper “Moscovskiye Vedomosti”. Moscow, 2005;
I.V. Kuznetsov History of National Journalism (1917-2000): Educational Kit. Moscow, 2002.