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Court has satisfied appeal of newspaper “Moya Respublika – Facty, Sobytiya, Ludi” of re-registration partially

16 april 2010
On April 15, 2010 City Court of Astana examined appeal of the newspaper “Respublika” for judgment of Specialized Inter District Economic Court. As a result of it Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan did not provide certificate of registration without fail.

Appeal instance dismissed judgment of first instance. Committee of Information and Archives of Ministry of Culture and Information should eliminate violation of rights and legal interests of LLP “ADP Ltd”; examine statement of LLP “ADP Ltd” about re-registration of the newspaper “Moya Respublika – Facty, Sobytiya, Ludi” and compensate plaintiff for the court damages as 132000 tenge ($897USD).

Defendant did not provide certificate of re-registration of the newspaper “Moya Respublika – Facty, Sobytiya, Ludi”.

Editorial staff of the newspaper “Respublika- Delovoye Obozrenie Duble 2” has been unable to publish it. It made re-registration from monthly to weekly edition “Moya Respublika – Facty, Sobytiya, Ludi”. Relevant documents were sent to Ministry of Culture and Information in October 2009. It should make re-registration during fifteen days. But, it was impossible, because serviceman of Ministry of Culture and Information, who took relevant documents, lost them.

Editorial staff sent documents to Ministry of Culture and Information several times during last three months. In December 2009 editorial staff addressed to Specialized Inter District Economic Court of Astana with suit. This suit was brought against Committee of Information and Archives of Ministry of Culture and Information in connection with its illegal failure, concerning re-registration of the edition.
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