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Trial in the action of ex-finance minister Zeinulla Kakimzhanov to the Internet portal Ratel.kz will begin on 16 January. Zeinulla Kakimzhanov demands retraction of 9 articles and redress for the non-pecuniary damage in the amount of 20 million tenge.

Main hearings of the case of the editor-in-chief of newspaper “Central Asia Monitor” and director of the internet-portal “Radiotochka.kz” Bigelgy Gabdullin will begin in Astana on 17 January.

Pre-trial hearings on Bigelgy Gabdullin’s case are called for 11 January in Astana.

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Kazakhstan users could not access Facebook, Google, Instagram, Youtube and other social networks. According to the Ministry of information and communication of the Republic of Kazakhstan it was caised by emergency failure at telecommunications networks.

The сourt considered sharing others' posts in social networks to be incitement of religious and national hatred and sentenced internet user Ruslan Ginatullina to 6 years of imprisonment in maximum security penal colony.