· November, 2010

Stories about Kazakhstan from November, 2010

Kazakhstan: Livejournal Unblocked After 2 Years of Filtering

  17 November 2010

Livejournal, the most popular blogging platform in the Russian-language segment of the world wide web, was blocked by the national operator – and subsequently by other Internet service providers in Kazakhstan – in fall 2008. No explanations were provided by the authorities or the ISPs, except for the highly controversial...

Kazakhstan: An MP wants to ban Halloween

  17 November 2010

KZBlog reports that a member of Parliament is asking the prime minister for a ban on “a Satanic holiday” Halloween, and notes that this is not the first proposal to ban Western holidays or TV shows on the post-Soviet space.