Coverage of Foreign Minister Granic's recent meetings with Secretary Albright and Ambassador Gelbard focused almost exclusively on the Partnership for Peace question, and the March 30 signing of the agreement between Enron and the Croatian electric power company only added to the speculation. From the outset, the vast majority of Russian media has been harshly critical of NATO's military intervention. A very few voices, however, have emerged over the last week that have directed their criticism not at NATO, but at Moscow's reaction to the Kosovo crisis. This makes the NATO air raids look like a senseless and absurd aggression. From the beginning of the NATO operation, Georgian media have stuck to strict reporting on the events in Kosovo.
Reporters mostly cite international media stories and produce very little original material.
Georgian print and electronic media have left it to the public to make a judgment by printing and broadcasting news and analysis by both Western sources, such as Reuters, and Russian media. Ukrainian electronic and print media offered contrasting views of the Kosovo crisis. In their most recent coverage, Ukrainian TV stations have taken fairly balanced and moderate positions on the situation, focusing on the humanitarian plight of the refugees and the Ukrainian government's efforts to assist the refugees in Macedonia. Print media remained critical of the NATO operation against Yugoslavia, but have moderated their views somewhat in the wake of increased reporting of Serbian ethnic cleansing and the forced expulsions of Kosovo Albanians.