Affiliated media: Nasha Gazeta, Online media

Incident date: September 2, 2021

Attack type:

• request to remove or block the article and/or refutation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Kostanay Province, Kostanay

Additional information:

The editorial staff of the weekly newspaper Nasha Gazeta received a letter from the Roskomnadzor demanding the removal of a comment by a website user under the nickname «Angry Kostanayan» posted on June 26, 2014, on the media outlet’s forum «Discussion of Publications». In it, the website user quoted a reworked poem «Do the Russians Want War» published on other Internet resources in 2008. Roskomnadzor reported that the «Angry Kostanayan» comment was included in the Unified Register of the domain names, website references and network addresses that allow identifying websites containing information circulation of which is forbidden in the Russian Federation. The editorial staff of Nasha Gazeta complied with Roskomnadzor’s instruction, as it values its audience in Russia.