From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 1/9/2006 6:08 AM
Abkhazian newspaper periodical press world turned over
2.6.2006    

The newspaper "Echo of Abkhazia" (№ 52 from 27.12.05) analyzes conditions and prospects of the newspaper market in republic: "After rough internal political shocks and cataclysms of 2004 life in Abkhazia in 2005 after the presidential elections has gradually started flowing in the quiet channel. Thus the new opposition - first of all on behalf of the block "Forum of national unity of Abkhazia" - certainly, was generated. For the lack of their own electronic mass-media, the main mass media of the oppositional forces became weekly newspapers "New Day" (published since 2004) and "Forum" - being published since the spring 2005.

That caused certain changes on the newspaper market of Abkhazia. Interesting that one year ago in the similar final publication it was written that appearance on that market new weekly journals printing TV-programs and through that focused on the mass reader and self-support ("Business Abkhazia", "Atana" and "Chegemskaya Pravda"), did not reduced at all circulation of other newspapers existed earlier. Today it is necessary to tell that this spring such reduction (for some edition on 15-20 percent, some - on 25) had occurred.

Among the reasons those who’s trying to analyze the situation name a certain post-elective apathy, weariness of the newspaper periodical press readers; that editions of the new opposition, despite of their rather modest circulations, "attracted" nevertheless attention of their adherents, those who had formed a part of the readers' audiences of the newspapers "Necessary", "Echo of Abkhazia" or "Chegemskaya Pravda".

There is also another reason: significant part of the reading public expects non-governmental press, first of all, to criticize rigidly and impartially actions of any political forces being at authority. As the three above-mentioned editions during the last presidential elections supported Bagapsh, that fact in such readers’ opinion gives odds for the new-opposing newspapers at once. In some measure in the printed periodical press of Abkhazia "the world had turned over": the state editions quite often attacked earlier the former oppositionists, today follow the instruction and the order of the later ones, as independent newspapers shacking foundations of the old authority, now are politically loyal to the present authorities and frequently play the role of its defenders from charges of the opposition.

However, only an extreme slanderer can declare that they have lost their acuteness and independence of views and always and in everything agree with authority..."

Newspaper "Echo of Abkhazia"

http://www.adygeanatpress.net/stat_e.php?id=1235