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Printing houses disallowed to print newspaper "Pravdivaya Gazeta"

29 may 2013
May 29, 2013

On May 29, 2013 the fifth issue of newspaper "Pravdivaya Gazeta" was failed to print, due to technical difficulties. The day before, printing house "Business-Inform" (Almaty) suddenly disallowed to print newspaper "Pravdivaya Gazeta" on the plea of procurement of the other large order. Editorial staff informed, that managers of the newspaper have applied to 17 printing houses of Almaty and everywhere, they were refused for various reasons. The director of printing house "Dauyr" ordered not to take an order from opposition edition. Directors of printing houses "Bolashak" and "Asyl-Arna" agreed to cooperate, but after receiving of files with proof pages and reading and understanding the subject of newspaper, they have also to disallowed to print it.

The owner of newspaper, private enterpreneur Aliya Ismagulova has applied for Ministry of Press and information of the Republic of Kazakhstan to recommend state printing house which would be rendered its services to registered media "Pravdivaya Gazeta". She pointed out that newspaper did not publish illegal materials, it covered the actual, sharp, social aspects, ina balance manner informs about events in the country, publishes memoirs of public and political figures, including extracts fro last book of Zamanbek Nurkadilov.

We would you remind that now, closed newspaper "Respublika" during its legal existence some years in succession was failed to find any printing house which could cooperate with it and it should print its edition by improvised means or abroad.
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