Arctic Ocean Greenland Sea Beaufort Sea GREENLAND Norwegian Sea (DENMARK) ICELAND NORWAY U.S.A. SWEDEN FINLAND RUSSIA

Hudson Bay ESTONIA Bering Sea Labrador Sea DENMARK LATVIA Gulf of Alaska CANADA U.K. RUSSIA LITHUANIA Sea of Okhotsk BELARUS IRELAND NETHERLANDS POLAND GERMANY BELGIUM CZECH REP. LUXEMBOURG UKRAINE LIECHTENSTEIN SLOVAKIA MOLDOVA KAZAKHSTAN SWITZERLAND AUSTRIA HUNGARY North Atlantic Ocean SLOVENIA ROMANIA FRANCE ITALY CROATIA SERBIA BOSNIA & HERZ. MONTENEGRO MONACO BULGARIA GEORGIA UZBEKISTAN ANDORRA SAN MARINO MACEDONIA KYRGYZSTAN PORTUGAL KOSOVO ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN GREECE TURKMENISTAN NORTH KOREA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SPAIN TURKEY TAJIKISTAN ALBANIA North Paci c Ocean MALTA KASHMIR (PAKISTAN) CHINA SOUTH KOREA TUNISIA CYPRUS SYRIA LEBANON AFGHANISTAN KASHMIR (INDIA) MOROCCO ISRAELI OCCUPIED/PAL. AUTHO. IRAQ ISRAEL IRAN East JAPAN JORDAN TIBET (CHINA) China Sea

KUWAIT PAKISTAN NEPAL ALGERIA BAHRAIN BHUTAN LIBYA MEXICO BAHAMAS EGYPT QATAR Gulf of Mexico WESTERN SAHARA (MOROCCO) U.A.E. TAIWAN PUERTO RICO (U.S.A.) INDIA North Paci c Ocean SAUDI ARABIA BURMA CUBA LAOS MAURITANIA BANGLADESH HONG KONG (CHINA) JAMAICA ST. KITTS & NEVIS OMAN MALI BELIZE HAITI ANTIGUA & BARBUDA NIGER DOM. REP. YEMEN South China Sea HONDURAS SENEGAL CHAD ERITREA Bay of Bengal THAILAND DOMINICA VIETNAM Caribbean Sea ST. LUCIA CAPE VERDE MARSHALL GUATEMALA GRENADA THE GAMBIA SUDAN PHILIPPINES ISLANDS EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA ST. VINCENT & GRENADINES BURKINA CAMBODIA BARBADOS FASO DJIBOUTI GUINEA BISSAU GUINEA BENIN NIGERIA TRINIDAD & TOBAGO SOMALILAND (SOMALIA) COSTA RICA ETHIOPIA SRI LANKA MICRONESIA VENEZUELA GUYANA SIERRA LEONE CÔTE GHANA D’IVOIRE CENTRAL AFRICAN PANAMA SURINAME NAURU KIRIBATI REPUBLIC BRUNEI FRENCH GUIANA (FRANCE) LIBERIA TOGO COLOMBIA CAMEROON MALDIVES SOMALIA MALAYSIA PALAU EQUATORIAL GUINEA UGANDA SAO TOME & PRINCIPE ECUADOR KENYA SINGAPORE TUVALU GABON RWANDA

CONGO (KINSHASA) BURUNDI PERU CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE) INDONESIA PAPUA SOLOMON TANZANIA NEW GUINEA SEYCHELLES ISLANDS EAST TIMOR BRAZIL COMOROS Indian Ocean ANGOLA SAMOA ZAMBIA VANUATU

MAURITIUS BOLIVIA ZIMBABWE MALAWI FIJI NAMIBIA MADAGASCAR MOZAMBIQUE TONGA PARAGUAY BOTSWANA

CHILE South Atlantic Ocean AUSTRALIA

SWAZILAND ARGENTINA SOUTH AFRICA LESOTHO URUGUAY South Paci c Ocean Tasman Sea

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CHAPTER ONE. Media Freedom in 2010 ...... 6

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PREFACE

We are pleased to present our media 19, in 2001 there were 91 such laws and freedom report, and we would like to law provisions. express our thanks to the USA Embassy The Freedom of Information bill, first in Ulaanbaatar, the Open Society Forum included in the Parliamentary agenda (OSF) and the Mongolia Network Media in October 2005, is a special concern. Program of the Open Society Institute In October 2006, C