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Perspectives | Kazakh students ditching Russian social media
Eurasianet
27 Jul 2021, 06:49 GMT+10
Kazakhstan s elite university students get their news from the same social media platforms beloved by their counterparts in many Western countries.
That s the main takeaway from a small survey we conducted this year at several universities in Almaty, Kazakhstan s cultural and business capital.
We asked a broadly worded, open question - From which sources do you receive news? - so answers ranged from specific outlets to the ultra-generic (e.g. search engines ). But the majority of respondents (around 60 percent of several hundred polled) specified social media as their primary or sole source of news. Combined, these platforms exceeded the readership of newspapers in print and online.