Transformation of Media Systems in the Post-Soviet States of Central Asia
https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2025-13-1-69-83
Abstract
The media space of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan in the context of globalization and digitalization of information flows is changing in accordance with common patterns of development, while facing similar challenges. Political expediency forces the authorities of these countries to search for an optimal model of the media system that takes into account the balance in ensuring democratic freedoms and establishing sufficient control over the information space to maintain the stability of the political regime. An attempt is made to give a concise but comprehensive description of the state of the media systems and the methods of regulation of these in each country of the the region. The results of research provide the summarized data on local mass media as a whole and by sectors – press, television and radio broadcasting, advertising, telecommunications, and online media, and outlines the ratio of foreign media in each of the post-soviet countries. At the end, the author introduces quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the media systems of the post-soviet Central Asian states.
About the Author
Sh. Kh. Rizoev
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Rizoev Shamsiddin Khurshedovich – senior lecturer, Faculty of Journalism
119571, Moscow, Vernadsky av., 82
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