Tolerance

The jury consisted of different, but rather interesting, important and competent personalities: R. Abdulatipov (Head of the Assembly of the Peoples of Russia), A. Gagarkin (expert of the Federal Agency for Press), I. Gilmutdinov (leader of the Federal National-Cultural Autonomy of the Tatars), A. Senko (Deputy Director of Department of International Relations of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia), A. Kasajev (Director of the general directorate for the CIS and the Baltic countries of “RIA-Novosti”), M. Lange (chairman of the Guild for Interethnic Journalism and adviser of the Director of “Radio Rossii”), P. Tultajev (Chairman of the Association of Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia), V. Fronin (Editor-in-chief of “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”), N. Chernyshova (Secretary of the Union of Journalists of Moscow Region). But it turned out that even for them it was not easy to choose the best – among the nominated are journalists from the capital and regional mass media representing work on a high professional level. After long debates, the jury suggested the organizing committee of the competition to introduce five additional prizes!

The short-list of the nominated includes:

Television: “Aris” (city of Kumertau), “Vologda” (Vologda), “Region Ryazan” (Ryazan), “Youth culture of Siberia” (Novosibirsk), “New TV Kuban” (Krasnodar), “Regional Television” (Yekaterinburg), “Yamal Region” (Salekhard), TRO State Union (Moscow), TVC Capital (Moscow), TVC “Planet” (Orenburg).

Radio: “Asatlyk” (Moscow), “Bashkortostan” (Ufa), Kolomna News Agency (Kolomna), “Region Tyumen” (Tyumen), “RTV-Moscow” (Moscow), Podolsk radio edition (Podolsk), Stupino radio edition (Stupino).

Internet: the site of Georgians in Russia “Georgians.ru”, Internet newspaper “Kazakh-tili.ru” (Kazakh language), Russian-German information portal “RusDeutsch”, the site “Belarusians of Moscow”, “Interethnic.org”, Internet version of the newspaper “Noah’s Ark”, the site of the Russian Hebrew Congress, “Ukrainian Review”, “Elite of Chuvashia”, the site of the information centre of the Finno-Ugric peoples (city of Syktyvkar), the site of the Legal Center of Small Indigenous People of the Region North Khabarovsk “Mede-Center”, the Tatar Universal Server “Tatarlar.ru”.

Press: newspaper “Aserros” (city of Moscow), “Burlin Newspaper” (Burla, Region Altai), journal “Dialogue with Society and Authorities” (Moscow), journal “Sandalyk Mari – Mari World” (Yoshkar-Ola), journal “Moksha” (Saransk), newspaper “Moscow-Alania” (Moscow), newspaper “Russian Koreans” (Moscow), newspaper “Tatar World” (Moscow), newspaper “Twerskaya Life” (Twer), newspaper “Tuva Truth” (Kyzyl, Republic Tuva), newspaper “Ural worker” (Yekaterinburg), “Finno-Ugric newspaper” (Saransk), journal “Gypsies of Russia” (Moscow), newspaper “Magyar Truth” (Saransk), journal “Ethnosphere” (Moscow).

Children and youth media: journal “Shrumdirum” (city of Moscow), newspaper “Together” (Moscow), newspaper of the gymnasium nr. 1554 “Dialogue” (Moscow), journal “Kizili” (Izhevsk), journal “Red Asterisk” (Saransk), newspaper “Youth Change” (Grosny), journal “Russian Land” (Moscow), “Schol Television” (Moscow), journal “Youth of Moscow Region” (Moscow), newspaper “Jamde ly” and application “Kugeze Tumo” (Tree of ancestors) (Yoshkar-Ola).

The winners of the All-Russian competition for the best coverage of themes of interethnic interaction of the peoples of Russia and their ethnocultural development “SMIrotvorjets 2009” will be named on the International Day of Tolerance, 16^th of November 2009, on the award ceremony in the theatre “Na Strastnom” in Moscow.