ISKCON Russia Press-center report, 2000

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ISKCON Russia Press-center report, 2000

 

Our materials were accepted

by the newspapers:

Tretiy Glaz (The Third Eye), Opasniy Vozrast (The Risky Age), Tainaya Sila (The

Secret Power), Progress-T (Orenburg City, the Ural), Inostranetz (Foreigner),

Moskovskiye Vedomosti (Moscow Gazette), Liga Naziy (The League of Nations),

Trud (Labor), Vecherniy Klub (Evening Club), Commersant-daily, Vechernyaya

Moscva (Evening Moscow; twice), Moscovscaya Pravda, Moscovskiy Komsomoletz (the

most readable newspaper), ICE Bulletin, Indian Embassy Informational Bulletin,

 

by the magazines:

Vybor (The Choice, published by Moscow University students), Bolshoi Tzelevoi

Zhurnal ( The Big Special Purpose Magazine, St.Petersbourg), Gauranga

(published by ISKCON Moscow), Ptyuch ( an invented word; the magazine for

youth), Om (youth magazine), Elle (magazine for ladies), 2000, Religiya i Pravo

(Religion and Right), Ogonyok (Light; the most popular magazine), Molotok

(Hammer; youth magazine); Bharat Darpan (published by Indians in Russian), GBC

Journal.

 

Our materials were published

by the newspapers:

Megapolis-express, Pulse (Chernigov, the Ukraine), Moscovskiye Novosti (Moscow

news), Moscovskaya Pravda, Moscovskiy Komsomoletz (thrice), NG-religii

(religious supplement to "Nezavisimaya Gazeta"), Inostranetz, Gorodskoi Kuryer

(City Couriere, Sarov City, the Central Russia), Tretya Stolitza (the Third

Capital; Omsk City, Siberia), Progress-T (the Ural), Vaisnavskiye Vedomosti

(Vaisnava News, Moscow; nos.1-15)

By the magazines:

Factor (the magazine of very powerful Gazprom Corp.), Index (2 articles in one

issue; Human Rights advocates magazine), Bolshoi Tzelevoi Zhurnal (Big

Goal-oriented Magazine; Medical science; St.Petersbourg), Vestnik (Indian

Embassy information), Zerkalo Indii (twice; Indian Mirror; published in Russian

by Indians), Misteztvo Berezillya (the Ukranian theatre journal), Religiya i

Pravo (Religion and Law; published by Human Rights advocats), Adrenalin (the

magazine for youth), Om (for youth), Elle (for ladies).

Our pictures were published by Indian Embassy in their 50-th

anniversary book "India".

Our information was spread by the news agencies:

ASI (Social Information Agency; 4 times), Blagovest (Religious News Agency; 22

times), RIA (Russian Information Agency, one of the two biggest; 5 times),

ITAR-TASS (another one of the two biggest; 5 times), Interfax.

Info on the talk between H/G Vaidyanath Prabhu and Mr.Vajpayee as well as

former's New Year greetings to Russian people were spread bty All-Russia

radio; our declaration on Georgian authorities' vandalism (they arrested our

books there) - by the Int. Helsinki Federation (besides we sent the declaration

to 16 media).

News-release on H/G Vaidyanath Prabhu's participation in Hindu Conf. in

Rishikesh was spread through Internet by City Cat Service.

Ouir materials were published on Internet site india.ru.

We prepared 9 photo-stories; 7 of them were accepted by the central photo

agency Fotochronika-TASS.

We distributed 47 news-releases.

We issued 5 issues of our bulletin for media Hare Krsna Segodnya. First

time we made a colourful version of Hare Krsna Segodnya in Internet.

We presented our story for the server of Crimea Club in Internet and

another story - to Human Rights advocats.

We edited advertising texts for Yekaterinburg yatra (the Ural).

We prepared a photo-story for the Indian Embassy.

We assisted

- Baskortostan, Kazan and Saratov Yatras (Volga region) as well as:

Kirghiz and St.Petersbourg Yatras in counteracting local media attacks;

- Murmansk (the European North) Yatra in making their newspaper.

We sent our greetings with

- Woman Day - to 33 lady-journalists;

- New Year - to 85 media people;

- Tenth Anniversary - to Nezavisimaya gazeta;

- Divali - to Indian Ambassador.

We sent FFL story - to devotees of Danish Yatra and to The Vegetarian

Resources (USA).

We sent our protest against derogatory statements by

- newspapers: AIF (Arguments and Facts, the leader of subscription),

Izvestia (News), Svezhiy Nomer (The Last Issue, a new Moscow newspaper);

- magazines: Vot Tak (Just So; half-porno); NLO-Kaleidoscop (UFO-

Kaleidoscope; gutter press).

We made an agreement with Moscovscaya Pravda to publish

retraction of their derogatory statements.

We arranged Moscow Indian community's protest against derogatory statements by

- Sovetskaya Rossiya (Soviet Russia, published by communists-radicals);

- Andrei Khvylya-Olinter (then Ministry of Internal Affairs officer,

colonel; so we sent our complaint to the Minister).

We sent our materials for NTV (one of the biggest TV companies) web site.

We made stories on Janmastami and Deity worship for Moscow temple guests.

We prepared a material for presentation on Hindu Conference in Rishikesh.

We took part in celebration of Moskovskiy Komsomoletz Day, distributing to

public 50 copies of our old newspaper Tvoi Shance - Soznaniye Krishny ( KC -

Your Chance) and 30 copies of our book Vedic Tradition in Russia.

We prepared texts for

- condolescence letter (when "Kursk" submarine had sunk);

- H/G Vaidyanath Prabhu's meeting with Mr.Vajpayee

- H/G Radha-Damodar Prabhu's TV talk.

We made a research expedition to trace the history of Astrakhan (Southern

Russia) Vaisnava community XVII-XIX centuries.

 

We prepared materials for the colourful booklet on ISKCON Russia

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