The Silk Road Intelligencer is a website that covers general news such as business, energy, finance, politics, society, mineral resources, regional news, and economics. It was launched in July of 2007 as a daily web publication that offers analysis and news on the Central Asian and Caspian Sea regions, with particular emphasis on Kazakhstan. The website written by its own staff is a growing network of partner publications. This information was found on the Silk Road Intelligencer website. The internet feels a lot of pressure from the government because the censorship of online publication is routine.
The state-owned Kazakh Radio broadcasts in Kazakhstan. It is played for two hours a day which includes news, talk shows, and analytical programming. According to http://www.rferl.org/section/Kazakhstan/158.html "Kazakh Service was established in 1953 as part of the Radio Liberty family, and Radio Azattyq has redoubled those efforts since independence to provide dependable information through intensive on-the-ground reporting and unique perspective."
The limited airtime and restrictions on the Kazakh media market have imposed a heavy burden that Radio Azattyq has sought to counter with dynamic programming and stepped-up cooperation with regional and local media. During the middle of 2008, Radio Azattyq's local website was inexplicably blocked for seven weeks until access was restored following public appeals to the Kazakh government by U.S. officials, numerous NGOs, and the OSCE's envoy on media freedom. The Almaty police department recognized the Radio Azattyq correspondent as providing the best coverage of city police operations and crime in 2004. According to this website.
Newspapers in Kazakhstan are mostly supported by the government. There is a wide variety that is available. The authorities operates the only regular national Kazakh language newspaper as well as one of the two national Russian-language newspapers. According to government statistics, there were 418 privately owned magazines and 990 privately owned newspapers. Those supportive of the opposition face lawsuits and harassment. This information was obtained from wikipedia.org.
