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In Kazakhstan, the Internet Backdoors You (csoonline.com)
itwbennett writes: Kazakhstan passed a law that would require citizens to install a certificate on their personal computers and mobile devices that would allow the government to snoop and capture web traffic, passwords, financial details. Telecom.kz posted the news to their website on November 30, but by December 4 the press release had been removed from the website. This is just the latest example of government overreaching. Recently we've seen the Turkish government attempt to block access to social media sites. And let's not forget Thailand's attempt to roll out their own man-in-the-middle implementation.
Kazakhstan basically consists of northern part - Russian Southern Siberia and southern part - Kazakhstan proper - and has been separated from Russia by Stalin in 1936. The northern part was part of Russia and inhabited by Russians during about 400 years after fall of Golden Horde. If you look at Google Maps you see that northern part has mostly Russian names and the southern one - Kazakh ones.