LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN

of March 19, 2013 No. 961

About periodicals and other mass media

This Law establishes organization-legal bases of activities of periodicals and other mass media, the state guarantees of their freedom and governs the relations, related.

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. Basic concepts

B this Law are used the following basic concepts:

- news agencies - the legal entities registered according to the procedure, established by the legislation of the Republic of Tajikistan, collecting, development, preparation and the publication of information;

- belief - assessment, statement of the point of view, the comment, and also expression of opinion in relation to the phenomena, processes or the personality which have no confirmatory conclusions or the denying facts;

- mass information - messages, printed, audio-, audiovisual materials and other information on persons, objects, facts, events, the phenomena, and also beliefs which extend by means of printing, audio-and video means for a wide range of users and consumers;

- accreditation - registration of representatives of mass media in state bodies or in the relevant organizations for information access and its publication;

- mass media - periodicals and also news agencies, body - and the broadcasts, newsreels, records, the audio-and audiovisual programs airing or distributed by means of cable television at least once a year;

- the journalist - the physical person who is engaged in collection, editing and preparation of information and materials for the editorial office of mass media, connected with this edition by the employment contract or other contractual relations and performing activities agrees to the powers conferred to it or being the member of labor union of journalists;

- typography - the place where printing mass media are issued;

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