The pre-investigative check was conducted under article 274 “Dissemination of misleading information” of Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan with regard to journalist Maria Kovaleva. The newspaper publisher “Uralskaya Nedelya” (“Ural's Week”) Tamara Eslyamova, its journalist Talgat Umarov were charged with slander under article 130 of Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan.