Seminar Answers to the questions What are the main informational Uzbek radio and tv channels? What Uzbek web sites do you know?

Another factor to take into consideration is the fact that a large percentage of the country's population is employed in primary sector industries, such as agriculture and mining. For the most part, individuals employed in these sectors have no regular access to the Internet, or no access at all.

Answer: 5

The National Press Center stated in January 2001 that there were 507 newspapers and 157 magazines published in Uzbek language or Russian language. In 1999, there were 471 newspapers and magazines, of which 328 were published by the various ministries and departments of the government, state enterprises, or "political parties." Almost all newspapers are printed at the state printing facilities, which makes it convenient and not-so-obvious for the print copy to be censored. Of the total number, 66 may be regarded as national, 68 regional (although the government does not accept such a category on grounds that Uzbekistan is not split into regions), and the remaining local. Some 109 were public or organizational, representing trade unions, the military, or other associations. The remaining 34 were in the private sector, which is a growing segment and financially independent of the government. They were mostly commercial or religion-based.