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Chief Editor of newspaper “Kursiv” Daniyar Bukanov was dismissed

4 february 2010
Editor-in-chief of republican business weekly “Kursiv” Daniyar Bukanov was relieved him of his post.

Editorial staff did not comment this situation, but they confirmed this information. Aybar Orsanov was appointed as deputy chief editor.

There was a version, that Bukanov was dismissed from publication stemmed from suit of Chairman of Board of JSC “Foundation of National Welfare Samruk-Kazyna” Timur Kulebayev to Former Head of “BTA-Bank” Mukhtar Ablyazov and some Kazakhstan’s media outlets, including the newspaper “Kursiv”. There was a ruling of Medeu District Court, subjected to putting of seizure on output of editions, mentioned in suit; other information resources in printed and electronic form, where have been materials, discredited honor and dignity of Timur Kulebayev; it ruled stoppage of distribution of printed, but not dissemination of output, contained critical information.
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