Mapping media landscape in Central Asia: Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirgizstan analysing penetration of Russian propaganda in Central Asian region

On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation launched a military attack on Ukraine.
At the heart of this conflict is the dissemination of a narrative elaborated since the Maidan, the annexation of Crimea, and the conflict in the Donbass. Russian propaganda is particularly active in countries that the Kremlin describes as "near abroad", essentially former republics of the USSR.
The aim of the current project is to identify the media players in Central Asia, and to understand and analyze the media landscape in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, in order to understand the penetration mechanisms of Russian propaganda tools, and to identify key players in the Central Asian media landscape, in order to counter Russian informational pressure