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Local Media

The government in Turkmenistan has an absolute monopoly of the media, laying down editorial policies, monitoring media outlets and operating printing presses. There are no newspapers in English, but there are a number of local-language papers, including the following:

• Adalat (Justice) - Turkmen-language
• Edebiyat we Sungat (Literature and the Arts) - Turkmen-language
• Galkynys - Turkmen-language weekly, mouthpiece of the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan
• Neytralnyy Turkmenistan - Russian-language, published 6 times a week
• Turkmen Dunyasi - Turkmen-language monthly, mouthpiece of the Ashgabat-based World Turkmens Association
• Turkmenistan - Turkmen-language, published 6 times a week
• Watan - Turkmen-language, published 3 times a week

The state also owns a television network (Turkmen TV), which operates four channels, and a radio network (Turkmen Radio), which operates two stations. Programmes from Russian TV stations are censored before being rebroadcast.

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