The Committee to Protect Journalists reported claims of Russian Roskomnadzor to the Kazakh media

Russian authorities must stop their efforts to silence reporting on the country’s invasion of Ukraine and stop harassing foreign outlets covering the conflict, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday.

As CPJ reported, the Leninsky District Court in the western city of Vladimir summoned the Kazakhstan-based independent news website Arbat.Media. According to the editor-in-chief of the Kazakh media Syrym Itkulov , it “goes without saying” that the outlet’s representatives would not travel to Russia to respond to the summons.

Adil Soz head Karla Jamankulova told CPJ that she hoped the Kazakh government would take “a public firm stand” to “protect our information space from any attempts of other countries to dictate what our media should write about and how.”

CPJ emailed the Leninsky District Court, Roskomnadzor, and the Kazakh Ministry of Information for comment, but did not immediately receive any replies.

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