Paper That Criticizes Leader Is Ordered Shut
From Times Wire Reports
Kazakhstan has ordered the closure of one of the Central Asian state’s few newspapers that criticize President Nursultan A. Nazarbayev.
Respublika, a weekly that supports the opposition, showed reporters a copy of an order from the Culture, Information and Sports Ministry that said the paper had been “liquidated” but did not give a reason.
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