Andrei Richter

Who is Andrei Richter?

Andrei Richter is the director of the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, director and founder of the Moscow Media Law and Policy Institute, and Professor at the School of journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Born in 1959 in Kharkov, Ukraine, he has university degrees in law, foreign languages, and a doctorate degree in journalism. Richter is a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists and Co-chair of the Law Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research in 1996-2010.

Richter edits the only publication on media law in Russian and sits on editorial boards of a number of international journals on communications and the media. He authored numerous publications on media law in Russian, English, Armenian, Azeri, Ukrainian, Serbian, Slovak, German and French, including the only standard textbook on media law for journalism students of Russian colleges and universities, a book of reading materials on media law for students and journalists, and a UNESCO publication – a book titled Post-Soviet Perspective on Censorship and Freedom of the Media.