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Social media can prove somewhat of a minefield these days for content creators in Kazakhstan. Authorities in the Central Asian nation can be comparatively tolerant of the free-wheeling discourse on social media … that is, until one treads on a sensitive topic. The challenge for bloggers is that the sensitive subjects are not always clearly marked. One such sensitive topic, it seems, is the accreditation of foreign journalists. After Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry assumed authority for accrediting foreign journalists, a controversy brewed in January when officials held up 36 accreditation reques…

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