Специфика использования СМИ Кыргызстана в период предвыборных кампаний
Specifics of Use of Mass Media in Kyrgyzstan During Election Campaigns

Summary/Abstract: Kyrgyzstan will hold regular parliamentary elections in 2020.Kyrgyz mass media took an active part in almost all previous electioncampaigns. On the one hand, state mass media acted as an administrativeresource. The airtime area of the KRTRC (Public Television and RadioBroadcasting Corporation of the Kyrgyz Republic), state newspapersKyrgyz Tuusu, Slovo Kyrgyzstana, Erkin-Too and others mainly servedto voice and approve candidates, parties lobbied by the ruling power. Onthe other hand, activities of various political actors and private mediaare the basis of mosaic of information space in Kyrgyzstan. Politicaltechnologists, who see the media as one of the effective mechanismsof influence and public opinion formation, interact closely with them,setting the tone necessary for the client. All these political and informationprocesses led to the fact that in 2005 a multiparty parliament waselected, citizens were politicized and the development of social networkscontinues to periodically change the mosaic of the media picture of thecountry. This is especially intensified, as it has already been noted, onthe eve of the elections. However, the relative freedom of the mass media,the possibility of confrontation between different political actors, theuse of political technologies, in the absence of a clear state position andideology do not increase the level of civic activity.

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