Kazakh provider blocks Russian TV stations over Ukraine war

Individuals stroll previous a gaint Kazakhstan flag in Astana, Kazakhstan March 5, 2019. REUTERS/Pavel Mikheyev/File Picture

ALMATY, Feb 28 (Reuters) – An organization offering Web and tv companies in one of many provinces of Kazakhstan, an in depth ally of Moscow, has blocked all Russian tv stations over their protection of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it stated on Monday.

“We’re in opposition to warfare and in opposition to warfare propaganda,” the Remstroyservice firm primarily based within the city of Shakhtinsk in central Kazakhstan stated in an announcement, including that it was operating Kazakh state TV rather than all main Russian stations.

Kazakhstan has averted criticising Russia’s transfer to invade a fellow ex-Soviet republic however on the identical time has not sided with Russia in recognising the independence of Moscow-backed separatist statelets in jap Ukraine.

The oil-exporting Central Asian nation’s tenge foreign money was hammered on Monday alongside the Russian rouble, whereas the variety of flights by way of its airspace tripled as many Russian airways needed to divert their planes as a result of bans imposed by European nations.

Reporting by Olzhas Auyezov, Modifying by William Maclean

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