LOCAL NEWSPAPERS IN POST SOVIET KYRGYZSTAN AND ITS PROBLEMS

Abstract

With the independence of Kyrgyzstanin 1991 and the change of the political power structure, the press has emerged from the state monopoly and the private sector has opened its way to this area. During the Soviet Union period, the national and local newspapers, which are the propaganda tool of the regime, began to struggle to achieve a liberal structure with independence and complete institutionalization. However, after the Soviet Union, economic, political and cultural collapse in the country negatively affected the newspapers. They were the local newspapers most affected by the collapse. When we look at the characteristics of local newspapers, they have to publish weekly or even monthly. The low number of pages, low circulation, and a high level of language diversity has prevented the development of local newspapers. Local newspapers appear to have struggled with many problems in the transition process of the country. At the forefront of these problems are sales, advertising, language, technical infrastructure and inadequate trained staff. In our work, after the Soviet Union, the general situation of local newspapers will be examined and the level of development and problems will be evaluated. For this reason, local newspapers operating in these regions will be analyzed by their ownership status, circulation structures, publication intervals, language structures content analysis method, and the reasons for facing many problems affecting them will be tried to be revealed.