NUR-SULTAN — Kazakhstan’s lower chamber of parliament, the Mazhilis, has approved the first reading of a bill that would allow the blocking of social networks and messaging apps if their owners fail to establish local offices in the Central Asian country.
RFE/RL: Controversial Kazakh bill allowing blocking of social networks passes first hurdle
People wait to receive doses of the Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac) vaccine against the coronavirus disease at a vaccination point in the Abylkhan Kasteyev State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Almaty on April 17, 2021.
