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July 26 2004 |
The World Association of Newspapers and the World Editors Forum
express serious concern at the death
of journalist Askhat Sharipzhanov |
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July 26 2004 |
Death Of Kazakh
Journalist Raises Suspicions |
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July 22 2004 |
Journalist of "Navi" internet newspaper
Askhat Sharipzhanov died |
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July 22 2004 |
Co-chairman of the moderate opposition party Ak Zhol Altynbek
Sarsenbaev is appointed as new
information minister |
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June 11 2004 |
Representatives of mass media discussed the role of media within
the upcoming elections during the
Congress of Journalists meeting in Taraz |
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May
14 2004 |
Kazakh Kiosks in Crisis. Almaty's
mayor declares war on kiosk traders in a bid to smarten up the
city |
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May
13 2004 |
No Relief for Kazakstan's Media.
The president's decision to reject a tough new media law was a
cosmetic gesture designed to conceal the dismal state of press
freedom |
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May
7 2004 |
Freedom of Speech in Kazakhstan.
International Foundation for Protection of Freedom of Speech
“Adil Soz” Press Release |
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May
7 2004 |
“Press Freedom 2004” in
Kazakhstan. Extract from the Survey of an International
Organization Freedom House |
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May
7 2004 |
According to Freedom House survey
“Freedom of the Press” Ranks Kazakhstan as Not Free |
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April 30 2004 |
The Committee to Protect Journalists
welcomes President's decision to veto a controversial media bill |
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April 28 2004 |
Kazakh veto of media law is welcomed,
but Kazakh journalists will still come under limitations imposed
by the country's new election law – Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty |
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April 27 2004 |
Eurasia Media Forum opens amid
skepticism |
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April 26 2004 |
Veto of Restrictive Kazakh Media Bill
Welcomed - U.S. Department of State |
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April 23 2004 |
IPI Welcomes Kazakh President’s Veto of
Law on Mass Media |
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April 22 2004 |
Eurasia Media Forum: Central Asia’s
Masters of Spin |
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April 22 2004 |
III Eurasian Media Forum opened
in Almaty |
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April 22 2004 |
New mass media law turned down -
Kazakhstani president |
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April 16 2004 |
«If the proposed
[media] law is to remain in its present form, it is difficult
not to see the law as a government inspired attempt to control
and intimidate the media», - International Press Institute
calls Nazarbayev to veto the media law and to reopen the
discussion process |
|
April 16 2004 |
Draft media law stirs political
controversy in Kazakhstan |
|
April 8 2004 |
Kazakhstan: Opposition Stifled in
Advance of Elections |
|
March 19 2004 |
The World Association of Newspapers
and the World Editors Forum call on the President of
Kazakhstan to reject the draft law on media passed by the Kazakh
Parliament |
|
March 19 2004 |
Memorandum on the Draft Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan on
Mass Media by Global Campaign for
Free Expression ARTICLE 19 |
|
March 18 2004 |
GIPI Round Table Meeting:
Administrative barriers of telecommunications market development
in Kazakhstan |
|
February 7 2004 |
A President at a crossroads. Radio
Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Kazakhstan's freedom of press |
|
November 9 2003 |
International Public Foundation for Protection of
Freedom of Speech Adil Soz and Kazakhstani non-government
organization Internews-Kazakhstan
announced their disengagement from Mazhilis
of the Parliament’s working group for consideration of the Media
draft Law |
|
November 27 2002 |
Hearings on mass
media activity and perfection of its legislative base are to
be held in Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of
Kazakhstan |
|
August 27 2002 |
Internet version of the Internews Kazakhstan
newsletter
issue # 19
(144) |
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August 6 2002 |
Article "Authoritarian turmoil in
Central Asia" published in Los
Angeles Times |
|
August 2 2002 |
The Board
on civil cases of the Supreme Court decreed to leave the
decision of Almaty municipal court on the lawsuit of Rakhat
Aliyev against Internews Kazakhstan without changes. |
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July 18 2002 |
Democratic Party of Kazakhstan
“Ak Zhol” issued a statement
of co-chairmen. |
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July
17 2002 |
Press
release of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), New York,
states that S. Duvanov,
independent journalist, has been charged with criminal
defamation.
Article "Bruised, but still jabbing Kazakh heavyweights"
published in New York
Times by Michael Wines. |
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July
11 2002 |
Press conference took place today in the
department of police of Almaty city, where police officers
accused M. Ketebayev in
arson. |
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July
4 2002 |
Journalist
of the independent television and radio company “Irbis” Kanat
Tusupbekov was taken into custody. |
|
June 16 2002 |
Decision of
Almaty municipal court on the lawsuit of Aliyev R. M.
against the representative office of "Internews Network
Kazakhstan", chief editor of the newsletter
"Internews-Kazakhstan" and author of the article "Khabarization
of the entire country. Part 2" - Dylevskaya Svetlana Yuriyevna
on protection of honor and dignity. |
|
June 11 2002 |
Article "New repression in Kazakhstan.
Journalists targeted after President implicated in scandal" by
Peter Baker, Washington Post
Foreign Service of June 10, 2002.
International press release
issued by World Press Freedom Committee on resolutions adopted
at WPFC conference on media independence in post-communist
countries. |
|
June 7 2002 |
Press-conference, dedicated to results of
examination of Rakhat Aliyev's lawsuit against Internews Network
in Kazakhstan in Almaty municipal court (court of first
instance), took place on Kazakhstan's press-club on June 6.
Internews-Kazakhstan distributed
press-release during the
press-conference.
Internews-Kazakhstan received
expert conclusion of
the Guild of linguistic experts on documentary and informational
disputes of Russian Federation concerning the article
"Khabarization of the entire country. Part 2". |
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May 28 2002 |
Internews Network in Kazakhstan issued statement regarding
Khabar's information
report of May 24, 2002
Declaration by the Presidency, on behalf of
the European Union, on
the recent attacks against the independent media in Kazakhstan,
Madrid and Burssels |
|
May 24 2002 |
U.S. Embassy statement on recent attacks against independent media in Kazakhstan.
U.S. State department spokesman Philip T. Reeker's
statement on
harassment of political opposition and independent media in
Kazakhstan. |
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May 23 2002 |
Representatives of the foundation "Adil soz",
Internews Network in Kazakhstan and Union of Journalists of
Kazakhstan made joint statement
in the view of recent developments in mass media sector of
Kazakhstan. |
|
May 22 2002 |
Committee to Protect Journalists published
report regarding recent
attacks on two opposition newspapers in the Republic of
Kazakhstan. |
|
May 21 2002 |
The International League for Human Rights sent
Address to the President
of Kazakhstan N. Nazarbayev regarding recent events around mass
media in Kazakhstan. |
|
May 2 2002 |
Speech by
Ambassador Heinrich Haupt, Head of OSCE Centre in Almaty, on
Eurasian Media Forum (25th-27th April, 2002, Almaty, Kazakhstan) |
|
April 15 2002 |
Ministry of transport and communications is
going to deprive the television company
"TAN" of its license on
right to broadcast. |
|
April 12 2002 |
Next
judicial session on the lawsuit of R. Aliyev against
Internews Kazakhstan was set on April 18th.
The representative office submitted a petition on delay of the
judicial session. |
|
April 3 2002 |
OSCE Center in Almaty disseminated a
press-release. |
|
April 2 2002 |
US Embassy
expresses its concern in the light of the recent events in
Almaty. International foundation for protection of
freedom of speech "Adil soz" appeals to the Minister of Internal Affaires of
the Republic of Kazakhstan, Suleymenov K.S.
with the open letter.
Kazakhstan today reports that Senator
Batallova is going to initiate investigation on fact of
assault of police officers on journalists near the Embassy of
France. |
|
April 1 2002 |
Almaty department of informaton, culture and
public accord submitted a lawsuit aganist the newspaper "Vremya
Po" to the inter-district economic court. |
|
March 29 2002 |
Address of
journalists of the television company "TAN". |
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March 14 2002 |
Appeal of
the Union of journalists of the Republic of Kazakhstan,
Representative office of Internews Network in Kazakhstan and
National association of television and radio broadcasters of
Kazakhstan to the Commission on conduction
of competitions for receipt of right on ground television and
radio broadcasting in the Republic of Kazakhstan. |
|
March 6 2002 |
Journalists of the television and
radio company "Irbis"
made an address to the deputies of the parliament of the
Republic of Kazakhstan. |
|
March 5 2002 |
Internews
Kazakhstan made an official
address regarding numerous incidents restricting the freedom
of activity of independent, private mass media in Kazakhstan. |
|
February 28 2002 |
Representative office of
Internews Network
in Kazakhstan announces about the
beginning of new project of
small grants for mass media of Kazakhstan.
A production fund for support of
journalist projects, dedicated to socially important issues, is
being established together with the US Agency for International
Development.
Applications for the first round of the
competition shall be accepted until March
10, 2002.
Applications for the second round shall be
accepted until December 10,
2002. |
|
February 27 2002 |
RFE/RL'S KAZAKH NEWS
reports that group
of Mazhilis deputies wants explanation on situation faced by
some media outlets. |
|
February 6 2002 |
During the trial session R.
M. Aliyev made a request to the court. On the same day
the court rendered a definition in regard to conduction of
examination. |
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February 5 2002 |
R. M. Aliyev agreed that he
had excluded the first sentence from the first paragraph of
the publication of the defendant. |
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January 30 2002 |
During the judicial session
the representative office proposed to conclude an amicable
agreement to the representative of the plaintiff. |
|
January 29 2002 |
Representative of Internews
Network in court presented Objections to the statement of
claim of R. M. Aliyev to the Representative office of Internews
Network in Kazakhstan on protection of honor and dignity and
compensation of moral damage. |
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January 25 2002 |
The defendant presented a
list of questions for literary and linguistic examinations
to the court. |
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January 23 2002 |
During the trial R. M. Aliyev
changed the ground and the subject of his suit. |
|
January 18 2002 |
The first trial session of
Almaty municipal court on the lawsuit of R. M. Aliyev
against Internews Network in Kazakhstan took place on January
17 2002. |
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