Kazakhstan
Country Profile: Kazakhstan
Background
Kazakhstan has taken an authoritarian turn under the rule of President Nazarbayev, who has served as head of state since national independence in 1991. Nazarbayev is widely alleged to have manipulated results of elections and suppressed opposition to remain in power.Commission on...
- Posted on 09/Dec/2010; tagged in Kazakhstan, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
ONI Blog: Kazakhstan Shuts Down Internet and Mobile Network to Prevent "Kazakh Spring"
In light of Arab Spring and keeping in mind the potential of online organizing, Kazakhstan's government has taken drastic measures to prevent a similar "Kazakh Spring." According to Tech Eye, president Nursultan Nazarbayev gave orders last week to disable the...
- Posted on 21/Dec/2011; tagged in Kazakhstan, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Take-down, IP blocking
ONI Blog: Kazakhstan Bans LiveJournal for Harboring "Extremism"
LiveJournal users in Kazakhstan will need to migrate somewhere else for their blogging activities, after an Astana city court recently placed the popular platform on a list of banned sites. Ailana Iskendirova, a court spokeswoman, stated that the sites placed on...
- Posted on 08/Sep/2011; tagged in Kazakhstan, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: August 26, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
- Posted on 26/Aug/2011; tagged in China, Kazakhstan, Libya, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Circumvention, Geolocational Filtering, Threats to the Open Net, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: July 15, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
- Posted on 15/Jul/2011; tagged in China, North Korea, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Kazakhstan, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: June 10th, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
ONI Blog: Google defies Kazakhstan’s attempt to “create borders on the web”, will re-route its users
As Google announced on its blog yesterday afternoon, it will start redirecting users of its customized Kazakh search engine, google.kz, to the international version. The move follows an order by Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Communications and Information that all .kz domain...
- Posted on 08/Jun/2011; tagged in Kazakhstan, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Legislation
ONI Blog: Livejournal.com Inaccessible in Kazakhstan
Bloggers in Kazakhstan are having difficulty accessing popular blogging platform Livejournal. It was reported widely on Friday that Livejournal.com was inaccessible. The Moscow Times said of the alleged block:
Internet users in Kazakhstan complained of censorship on Friday after being...
- Posted on 15/Oct/2008; tagged in Kazakhstan, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Political filtering
ONI Blog: Central Asian governments continue to clamp down on the Internet – II
Corruption rumors involving high-echelon officials is a sensitive topic for governments of the CIS. In October last year, ONI wrote a blog post on Kazakhstan’s political censorship of opposition sites. Four Web sites were shut down after they posted transcripts...
- Posted on 04/Feb/2008; tagged in Kazakhstan, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
ONI Blog: Opposition Web sites shut down in Kazakhstan
Four opposition news Web sites in Kazakhstan were temporarily blocked during the last weeks. The oil-rich Central Asian country with strong ambitions to chair the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 2009 has tightened the leash on the...
- Posted on 28/Oct/2007; tagged in Kazakhstan, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
