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How Kazakhstan is Trying to Use the US Courts to Censor the Net Kazakhstan News

How Kazakhstan is Trying to Use the US Courts to Censor the Net

The government of Kazakhstan has pursued one of its fiercest critics, the newspaperRespublika, with lawsuits and threats for fifteen years. By 2012, it seemed it had finally achieved its aim: after repeated prosecutions for "inciting social discord" and "spreading extremism," the paper's founder was in exile, and its staff forced to cease printing and distributing its print edition within the country. But despite blocks, bans, and overwhelming distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, Respublika's reporting lives on through its websites, which continue to critically report on the country's affairs and provide a forum for discussion from the relative safety of servers hosted in the United States. August 5 2015, 10:31 1 562 views
​U.S. delaying sanctions against Kazakh banks Kazakhstan News

​U.S. delaying sanctions against Kazakh banks

The U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan recalled that sanctions against Kazakh banks had been expected to enter into force on 1 October 2015. By this time, Kazakhstan and the United States should have signed an agreement on implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) by Kazakh second-tier banks (STB), which requires the banks to provide data about American depositors to the U.S. Treasury. August 4 2015, 10:00 1 431 views