The beginning of the end of the forced subscription, isn’t it?

Nurlan Jalgasbaev, Deputy Head of the Department of the Committee of the Regulation of Natural Monopolies and Competition Protection of the Ministry of National Economy for the Kostanay Region, informed “Nasha Gazeta” weekly thay the investigation of the actions of the local administration of Zhdanovsky rural district of Kostanai district was completed. According to him, a decision was made to start and administrative case and to issue an compliance order to the local administration.

The antimonopoly authority started th investigation after the appeal of Olga Kolokolova, the editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper “Nasha Gazeta” where she informed that last October the akim (the head) of the Zhdanovsky rural district of Kostanai district, Sapabek Doshchanov distributed a letter to local businessmen asking to provide an annual subscription by local workers to the regional newspapers "Kostanai news", "Kostanay agro", and "Arna”. Although the order is made in the form of a request, the akim specified in the e-mail that the response should be provided to the Akimat (local administration) by e-mail or by phone.