NOT THE PRESENT, BUT THE SUM IS IMPORTANT

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| 20:11:57 | 29-08-2005 | Politics |

“In Germany an official or a journalist must not receive presents of
more than 30 Euros from the same person for a year”, said expert of
political PR Rolf Steltemeiter. If the sum of the presents surpasses
30 Euros, the one who gave them will have problems with the tax
services. By the way, in this case the type of the presents does not
matter as even the flowers are included in the sum.

Rolf Steltemeiter, the ex-speaker of the Democratic Part in the
Bundestag, represented his experience of organizing election campaigns
and working with the journalists to the representatives of Armenia and
Georgia in Tsakhkadzor. The international seminar “Ways of working with
Mass Media” was organized by the German fund after Fridriech Naumann.

Mr. Steltemeiter told how they organized dinners for the journalists
twice a week. “It is almost electoral bribery”, mentioned some
people. The Georgian PR experts noted that they are not allowed
to accept even a pen as a present. In Armenia there are no such
restrictions for the journalists by the law, but it is not acceptable
here to, at least theoretically.

The German expert also referred to the image behavior of the Tran
Caucasian political bodies. “There are several Caucasian political
bodies whom I would not like to meet in the street when it is dark”,
he said hinting at their gloomy appearance.