CIPR and IPR News Coverage  |   2003

CIPR ON THE RUSSIAN TV CHANNEL

Russian national TV channel NTV covers CIPR Moscow Consumer survey April 8, 2003 View video (Russian language)

• "Piracy Against Progress" by Alexander Vershbow, The Moscow Times, November 25, 2003. Read

• "Counterfeits - Wholesale and Retail" by Tatiana Smolyakova, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, November 14, 2003. Read

• "Putin Urges Government to Crack Down on Piracy", The Moscow Times, November 4, 2003. Read

• "Copyright Catch-Up in E. Europe" by Roxanne Khamsi, Wired News, 24 October 2003. Read

• "Government Losing to Pirates" by Maxim Baranov, Delovoy Peterburg, October 22, 2003. Read

• "Consumers vs. Pirates" by Maxim Logvinov, Russky Kurier, October 22, 2003. Read

• "Pirates Are Being Driven Under Cover" by Roman Dorokhov, Vedomosti, July 16, 2003. Read

• "A world of fakes: Counterfeit goods threaten firms, consumers, and national security" by Matthew Benjamin, US News, July 14, 2003. Read

• "A Nation of pirates: Panicked by digital plunder, the entertainment industry fights back" by Kenneth Terrell, US News, July 14, 2003. Read

• "Stealing Corrupts", an interview with Olga Barannikova, the deputy director of government affairs for CIPR, in the Russian weekly Vremya MN by Alexander Korobov, Vremya MN, July 9, 2003. Read

• "The Stolen Freedom Monument" by Egils Zirnis, Latvian Daily "Diena", April 26, 2003. Read

• "A National-Scale Barrier for Pirates", by Romans Baumanis, Business & the Baltics, April 25, 2003. Read

• "Dangerous Pill" by Alexander Melnikov, Izvestiya, March 31, 2003 Read

• "Facts and Counterfeits: Why Are Fakes Sold?" by Dmitry Anikhin, Vechernyaya Moskva [Evening Moscow], March 28, 2003. Read

• "Find Ten Differences: How To Distinguish Counterfeits", by Olga Levicheva and Olga Kucherova, Gazeta, March 24, 2003. Read

• "Deceived Of One's Own Accord: Russians Are Loyal to Pirates", by Olga Levicheva, Gazeta, March 24, 2003. Read

• "Top Counterfeits" by Ekaterina Sashenko, Vremya Novostey, March 20, 2003. Read

• "Losses Due To Counterfeiting $5 Billion", Vedomosti, March 20, 2003. Read

• "Pirates and Fans. Last year 93 percent of Muscovites 'encountered' counterfeits" by Ludmila Soboleva, Izvestiya, March 20, 2003. Read

• "Poll Shows Hypocrisy on Piracy" by Alex Nicholson, The Moscow Times, March 20, 2003. Read

• "Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR) and Consumer Advocates Release First Consumer Study of Counterfeiting", RosBusinessConsulting, March 19, 2003. Read

• "In 2003 Russia's Losses Due To Counterfeiting May Reach $4-5 Billion", Interfax, March 19, 2003. Read

• "Will Latvia Become a Hole in the External Border of the EU?", by Romans Baumanis, Latvian Daily "Diena", March 17, 2003. Read

• "Amendments to the Trademark Law for Destroying Equipment Used to Produce Counterfeit Products Are Submitted to the State Duma for Consideration", RosBusinessConsulting, March 7, 2003. Read

• "EU battles rising tide of counterfeit goods", International Herald Tribune, January 21, 2003. Read

• "Trade Mark Overhaul on Track in Russia", Managing Intellectual Property, January 2003. Read