ABSTRACT
Russian journalists at the training sessions were very interested in how the idea of "civil journalism" could be integrated into a conceptual and technological system enabling their occupation to attain a new level of professionalism. In journalism, one consequence of that retreat is the desire of the Russian nomenklatura to remind journalists who is boss. The next focus of the journalists' fight for their future is the creation of a functioning market for mass media. Russian journalists are grappling with the issue of ethical self-regulation. In the final analysis, Russia's transition from an industrial society to an informational one will lead to the establishment and development of information and communications consortia, which will publish newspapers and magazines as well as produce audiovisual products. However, Russian society, having moved from one condition to a completely different one, made entirely new demands upon information subsystems in general and on journalism in particular.
