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3 unusual facts about Media Development Investment Fund


Media Development Investment Fund

Previously Vučinić was editor-in-chief and general manager of B92 radio in Belgrade when, in the early 1990s, the station started to experience financial problems caused by government interference.

Funders of MDIF's Loan/Investment Pool include: Bank Vontobel, Calvert Social Investment Foundation, DOEN Foundation, Dreilinden gGmbH, Foundation for Democracy and Media, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Open Society Institute, Oxfam Novib, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Alexej Fulmek.

Other support for MDIF's work has also come from: Council of Europe, Eurasia Foundation, J.M. Kaplan Fund, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.



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