Number of Internet subscribers rises by 25 percent in 2009

(SRI) - The number of Internet subscribers in Kazakhstan rose by 25.6 percent to 756,500 in 2009, the State Statistics Agency reported.

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Web browser that bypasses big brother a Kazakh hit

(Reuters Life!) - A browser that bypasses censors has become the most popular way to access the Internet in Kazakhstan, a Central Asian state where sites critical of the government are often blocked, a Web statistics firm said.
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Kazakh leader signs law curbing Internet: activists

(Reuters) - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed into law new controls on the Internet that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has called repressive, local activists said Monday.
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New law to restrict online expression as Kazakhstan prepares for OSCE presidency

(bne) - Kazakhstan’s online community and human rights organisations are appealing to members of the country’s upper house of parliament to reject a controversial new law on internet use. Opponents of the law say it will tighten state control of online media and restrict freedom of expression.

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