KAZAKHSTAN’S “MADRID COMMITMENTS”: A LONG WAY TO GO?
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Keywords:
mass media, media legislationAbstract
The purpose of the article is to analyze basic changes in the media law, election legislation and registration of political parties, which took place after 2007; whether Kazakhstan fulfilled its “Madrid commitments”;References
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Watch, “Promises to Keep: Kazakhstan’s 2010 OSCE
Chairmanship”, Commission for Security and Cooperation in
Europe, July 22, 2008
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of Kazakhstan, 2009, available at: http://www.adilsoz.kz/
site.php?lan=russian&id=1054
chairmanship: Madrid commitments and domestic political
landscape, EU-Central Asia Monitoring, www.eucentralasia.ru,
No7, December 2009.
2. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948,
Article 19, available at: http://www.un.org/en/documents
/udhr/index.shtml#a19
3. Available at: http://www.pavlodar.com/zakon/?
dok=03205&ogl=all
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Article 19, available at: http://www2.ohchr.org/english
/law/ccpr.htm#art19
4. The Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, General
Provision, Article 4, available at: http://www.ifescentralasia.kg/
Kazakhstan/ENG/conste_kaz.html
5. Helsinki Final Act 1975, Part VII, available at:
http://www.hri.org/docs/Helsinki75.html#H4.7; Charter on
European Security, Istanbul, 1999, available at:
http://www.unece.org/trans/osce/osceunece/istachart99e.pdf
6. Document of the Moscow meeting of the conference on
the Human Dimension of the CSCE, available at:
http://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/14310
7. Monitoring of amendment to legislation of the Republic
of Kazakhstan, 2009, available at: http://www.adilsoz.kz/
site.php?lan=russian&id=1054
8. Berg, Andrea. Central Asia Researcher, Human Rights
Watch, “Promises to Keep: Kazakhstan’s 2010 OSCE
Chairmanship”, Commission for Security and Cooperation in
Europe, July 22, 2008
9. Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhsta, Special
Part II, Section 1, Article 219, available at: http:// www.
legislationline.org/download/action/download/id/1681/file/ca1c
fb8a67f8a1c2ffe8de6554a3.htm/preview
10. Article 142. Infringement upon Privacy of the Criminal
Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, available at:
http://www.legislationline.org/download/action/download/id/16
81/file/ca1cfb8a67f8a1c2ffe8de6554a3.htm/preview
11. Illegal Violation of Private Correspondence, Telephone
Calls, and Mail, Telegraph, or Other Messages of the Criminal
Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, available at:
http://www.legislationline.org/download/action/download/id/16
81/file/ca1cfb8a67f8a1c2ffe8de6554a3.htm/preview
12. Berg, Andrea. Central Asia Researcher, Human Rights
Watch, “Promises to Keep: Kazakhstan’s 2010 OSCE
Chairmanship”, Commission for Security and Cooperation in
Europe, July 22, 2008
13. Monitoring of amendment to legislation of the Republic
of Kazakhstan, 2009, available at: http://www.adilsoz.kz/
site.php?lan=russian&id=1054
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