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E-News (Central Eurasian Studies)
RADIO
- BBC Radio (offers regular programs in several Central Eurasian languages)
- Central Asia Radio (weekly programs by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting [IWPR] for Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan)
- FreeDolina (sponsored by International Media Support, and run by journalists in Central Asia; offers news and online radio documentaries)
- Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (broadcasts in several Central Eurasian languages)
- SCOLA (click on "Program Schedules" for channels; available on IU’s campus and through cable subscription services)
Channel 1: European Broadcasts (Bashkir, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian)
Channel 4: Asian Broadcasts (Mongolian)
Channel 6: Middle Eastern Broadcasts (Persian, Tajik, Turkish)
Channel 8: Eurasian Broadcasts (Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Uzbek) - Tibet Online Web TV (official WebTV Station of the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, India)
- TV5 (Mongolian TV broadcasts)
- Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting Service (UBS) (Mongolian TV broadcasts)
- Asian Studies WWW Monitor (although its service ended in January 2011, this remains a valuable archive of information)
- Central Eurasian Studies World Wide (CESWW) [LAST UPDATED 2008] (sponsored by the Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus)
- EurasiaNet (run by the Open Society Institute; offers daily news digests and lists of resources by country)
- ABYZ News Links (extensive lists of online news sources from around the world, organized by region and country)
- Al Jazeera (English) (search by country, topic, etc.)
- Asia Times Online
- CentrAsia / ЦентрАзия (news digest)
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
Electronic Index (1975-1996) (index to the Daily Reports issued by the US Government, including translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world; continued by the World News Connection [see below]; IU log-in)
Daily Reports (1974-1996) (full-text of Daily Reports issued by the US Government, including translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world; IU log-in) - Free Asia (FREEAS) [CEASED MARCH 2010?]
- FreeDolina (sponsored by International Media Support, and run by journalists in Central Asia; offers news and online radio documentaries)
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Transitions Online
- World News Connection - Central Asia and the Caucasus (WNC-CAC) (1995-; click on "WNC-CAC"; full-text translations of foreign news and information sources from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service; IU log-in)
- CIS & Baltic Newspapers (click on "CIS & Baltic Periodicals" or "WNC-CAC"; IU log-in)
- Digiteeritud eesti ajalehed - Valik ajalehti aastatest 1821-1944 (old Estonian newspapers in full text)
- Freedom House (focus on global democracy and freedom issues)
- Uzbekistan Online Forum
- WikiLeaks (important, not-for-profit media organization; publishes news stories and original source material)
NEWS SOURCES BY COUNTRY
The ABYZ News Links below provide the most comprehensive lists of internet-based news sources for global media.
Online news services may be inaccessible occasionally due to termination or local connection problems.
Afghanistan
Azerbaijan
Estonia
Hungary
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Mongolia
Russian republics, oblasts, krais
Tajikistan
Tibet (China)
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Xinjiang (China)
