OMRI DAILY DIGEST
No. 164, 23 August 1995

ROMANI FESTIVAL FORUM ALSO FOR POLITICS. The Gypsy World Festival opened
in Hungary on 16 August, with performances continuing until 3 September.
As part of the events, a Romani radio program was broadcast from Sziget
on 17 August, and a television program from Budapest the morning of 19
August. On the opening day, Imre Furmann, head of the Otherness
Foundation's National and Ethnic Minorities Legal Aid Office, told the
press that while there have been no extreme attacks on Roma this year,
his office has acted on at least 50 cases of everyday discrimination and
abuse so far. Furmann explained that forms of discrimination vary. For
instance, some employment agencies place asterisks next to the names of
firms on their computer lists who will not accept Romani employees,
while real estate contracts are withdrawn when the buyer turns out to be
Romani. Furmann urged more explicit anti-discrimination laws, and said
that it was promising that recently more and more non-Roma file
complaints with his office on behalf of Roma. -- Alaina Lemon, OMRI,
Inc.

[As of 12:00 CET]

Compiled by Jan Cleave

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Wednesday, 23 August 1995
Volume 2, Issue 163


REGIONAL NEWS
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**SWISS PLEDGE GREATER RUSSIAN INVOLVEMENT IN OSCE**
  Switzerland is pledging to use its presidency of the
  Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe next year
  to give Russia a bigger say in European security issues.  The
  OSCE has been involved in mediation of the war in Chechnya.
  The Swiss say they will give priority to human rights, global
  security, reinforcing OSCE institutions and cooperating with
  other international institutions.  Switzerland will take over
  the OSCE's rotating presidency from Hungary on January 1 1996.


BUSINESS NEWS
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**HUNGARY'S APV REJECTS POLYGRAM PROTEST OVER HUNGAROTON SELL-OFF**
  Hungary's privatization body APV says it will not reverse its
  decision to sell the national record company Hungaroton to a
  consortium of local artists instead of the local subsidiary of
  Dutch music giant Polygram, despite a letter Magyar Polygram
  sent to APV yesterday threatening to sue the privatization
  authority if it doesn't change its mind by this Friday.
  APV  chose the local consortium over Magyar Polygram despite the
  fact that Magyar Polygram's was considerably higher.  APV says
  Magyar Polygram did not comply with tender specifications.



BUSINESS FEATURE
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**ADVERTISERS FIND THE GOING TOUGH IN CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPE**
  By David Fink

  Central and eastern Europe is, to say the least, a challenge
  for the advertising industry, where demand for space and air
  time far exceeds supply. When one of Russia's leading
  newspapers folded recently, its editors were proud that the
  paper never compromised its independence by seeking
  advertising. That might sound strange to Western ears, but
  such thinking persists throughout central and eastern Europe.
  Many publications seem to view advertising as a necessary
  evil. For instance, publishers often reserve only 20 percent
  of their space for advertising, compared with 40 or 45 percent
  in the United States.

  But that's not the only problem for advertisers. There just
  aren't enough advertsing outlets in some areas. Take the
  market for upscale women's magazines in Hungary. There are
  only two, Nok Lapja and Kiskegyed, which means their
  publishers have a near monopoly. Greg Gransden is the politics
  and economics editor of Business Central Europe Magazine. He
  says this is a very common situation. "Basically the ones that
  are already there can set the rules for advertising," he
  explains. "And that can involve keeping advertising levels
  very low,  charging high rates not or being very rigid about
  the placement of ads and so on."

  Gransden says that in some markets there are sectors for
  which no magazines at all are provided. Poland, for instance,
  could easily support a trade magazine for small shopkeepers
  but one hasn't been started yet. With all this advertising
  demand, one would expect  entrepreneurs to be queuing to start
  new publications. But Gransden says it is not so easy and
  Central Europe is likely to be underserved for a long time to
  come. "You really need to put together a lot of capital to
  start a magazine.  So there are barriers to entry, not legal
  ones, just financial ones, which is probably why were not
  seeing the creation of magazines to fill these niches as
  quickly as we might expect."

  Advertisers who need to reach people in a hurry can always
  turn to television, which is  now the main medium in Central
  Europe since people cannot afford to buy as many publications
  as western Europeans. however, limited competition gives TV
  stations, which are often still state owned, a near monopoly.
  That often sends ad rates soaring. So, it seems that as long
  as demand for advertising space dramatically exceeds supply,
  advertisers will find central Europe a tough place to do
  business.



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