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Claims were made against newspaper “Megapolis” for interview of five years’ prescription

25 march 2010
Board Chairman of Public Association “Youth Motion Kahar” General Director of LLP “Independent Company of Mutual Confidence” “Bond Creative Consulting” Sergey Bondartsev has sent a letter to Head of newspaper “Megapolis” Rinat Askarov.

There was a publication of the article “Bifurcation of “Kahar” or rage of pseudo patriots” by Korlan Kalieva on October 17, 2005. Sergey Bondartsev in his letter asked to acknowledge or disprove facts of the interview of correspondent Karlan Kalieva and Bakhytzhan Toregozhina; expression of personal opinion of Toregozhina, concerning symbol of “Kakhar”. It was a symbol of Kazakh people. But, Sergey Bondartsev (he has been Russian) had no any relation to it. He should know his place.

Lawyer of the newspaper “Megapolis” Malik Kakharov acknowledged fact of publication. Plaintiff did not receive a record of the interview, because correspondent was dismissed three years ago; editorial staff had no any record of the interview. He mentioned that interview has been as activity of some correspondents and each journalist has been responsible for its part of the material.

There was a conflict between S. Bondartsev and B. Toregozhina five years ago. “Youth Motion Kahar” websites “kahar.org” and “kahar.info” was headed and conducted by B. Toregozhina. “Independent Company of Mutual Confidence” “Bond Creative Consulting” was managed by S. Bondartsev. S. Bondartsev has brought a suit against B. Toregozhina to the court. The charges stemmed from illegal usage of trade mark “Kahar”, logo “Youth Motion Kahar” and violation of non-property rights. On October 12, 2005 Almaly District Court №2 of Almaty examined suit and passed ruling. As a result of it key Kazakhstan’s Internet-providers should block access to servers, where websites “kahar.org” and “kahar.info” were placed. These websites were blocked before coming of judgment to law-enforcement.

Public Foundation “AR.Rukh.Khak” is currently headed by Bakhytzhan Toregozhina. It is well-known by its extraordinary actions.  Bakhytzhan Toregozhina was fined on forty monthly assessment indices (384USD) by Inter District Administrative Court on March 16, 2010. She carried out art-mob near monument of Makhatma Gandi in Almaty on March 11, 2010. Participants of art-mob tried to find Kazakhstan’s spiritual leader. The judge qualified such actions as non-sanctioned rally.
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