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  - Government and the media in
    Kyrgyzstan
- Internews Network press release, 6 October 2000. Internews
	  Network Kyrgyz Republic, the National Democratic Institute
	  and the Committee for Mass Media of the Jogorku Kenesh
	  (Parliament) of the Kyrgyz Republic held their first ever
	  joint conference on October 3rd, 2000, in Bishkek. The
	  problems of independent journalists in the run-up to the
	  Presidential Elections and the possibility of
	  decriminalizing libel and slander in journalism.
- International Press Freedom Day marked in the
    Kyrgyz Republic
- Internews Network in the Kyrgyz Republic, press release, 3
	  May  2001. To mark the International Press Freedom Day 2001,
	  more than 100 journalists from the Kyrgyz Republic signed
	  the Bishkek Declaration on Promoting Independent Media in
	  the Kyrgyz Republic, calling for focused international
	  support and better donor coordination to keep the
	  independent media alive.
- Radio Salaam expanding operations in
    Batken
- Internews press release, 10 August 2001. Radio Salaam, the
	  youth radio station launched by UNICEF (United Nations
	  Children's Fund), the Foundation for Tolerance
	  International and the Public Association Internews in
	  the Kyrgyz Republic in the Southern city of Batken in March
	  2001, is expanding its operations.