Kazakhstan - Kazakhstan censors coverage of Eurasian Economic Union summit

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The Kazakh authorities did everything possible to prevent journalists spoiling the party when President Nursultan Nazarbayev received his Russian and Belarusian counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Aleksander Lukashenko, in Astana on 29 May for the signing of the treaty creating the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). Three journalists were arrested and a leading news website was partially blocked in order to silence critics. The journalists – Sanat Urnalyev and Viktor Gudz, who work for the 16/12 (...)

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