According to Gurkin, Kyrgyz journalism still contains a lot of details borrowed from the Soviet school of journalism because it mostly copies the Russian way of doing journalism. “It is not appropriate at all. We are lagging behind current tendencies of journalism”.
Science in Kyrgyzstan will soon die, because of a corruptive system, lack of financial support and poor coverage of science, says Dmitry Milko, a scientist and member of the Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyz journalists don’t cover climate change because of Russian propaganda, general disinterest and prohibitive expenses.
An unstable political situation caused by two revolutions, one of which took place in 2005 and the other one just several weeks ago is one of the reasons why environment is not on the agenda.
There is no environmental journalism in Kyrgyzstan, said Almaz Ismanov, an independent journalist based in the Kyrgyz town of Osh in the south of the country. According to him, there are only occasional publications about environment, which usually occur within contests or “green” projects funded by international donors.
