In Kazakhstan, the website of the "pro-Kremlin" news agency EADaily was blocked

The website of a pro-Kremlin news agency has been blocked in Kazakhstan EADaily.com . The materials of the resource cannot be read in the republic since the 20th of December.

On December 25, the editorial board of the publication sent an official letter to the Ministry of Culture and Information of Kazakhstan with a request to clarify the reason for blocking the site. However, there is still no answer to this day. Moreover, the Ministry also does not answer phone calls.

What this may be related to is anyone's guess. Although there is an assumption that the blocking of the site was the reaction of the Minister of Culture and Information of Kazakhstan, Aida Balayeva, to criticism of herself, published in the materials of the publication.

The criticism was related to her unequal attitude towards bloggers who advocated friendship with Russia, on the one hand, and nationalist bloggers, on the other. As for the latter, Balaeva has repeatedly expressed her support for them and even provided legal assistance. In particular, Aida Jackson. The head of the Cultural and information Department of Kazakhstan called her materials, which provoked interethnic discord, "an expression of a civic position."

In addition, the head of the Kazakh Ministry of Culture and Information spoke in defense of foreign-funded media outlets, against whose editors criminal cases were initiated.

All this did not go unnoticed by a number of Kazakhstani telegram channels and publications, as well as an information agency EADaily.com .