A foreign website was blocked by mistake. Or was it not?

The Russian website "Free Press" published an article in which it addressed to the Ministry of Information and Communications of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Ambassador of Kazakhstan in Russia with a request to find out the reasons for blocking the site svpressa.ru on the territory of Kazakhstan.

The article points out that, the editorial staff asked JSC Kazakhtelecom for explanations due to a number of reports on problems with access to the site in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The reply read: "The IP address of the resource" svpressa.ru "(...) coincides with the IP address of the resource "pornoshik.ru" blocked by the Committee for State Control in the Field of Communications, Informatization and Mass Media according to the order No. 16-7 / 390 -I of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 16.02.2017”.

The owners of the site "Free Press" found out that the IP address specified in the response of "Kazakhtelecom" has nothing to do with the server of their website. It is located in the Netherlands, South Holland, the city of Crimpen-en-den-IJssel, so the impossibility of the "coincidence" of addresses is out of the question. Besides, pornoshik.ru was blocked in Russia long ago and it did not affect the access to the "Free Press".

Administration of the svpressa.ru believes that a possible reason for restricting access to their resource in Kazakhstan could be articles critisizing the policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan.