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Slideshow Sponsored Links Kazakhstan in move to ban opposition parties and media Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Kazakhstan in legal move to ban opposition parties and media 7:32am EST UPDATE 3-Kazakh bank Halyk raises 2012 net profit forecast Mon, Nov 19 2012 Kazakh bank BTA poised to seize oligarch's assets Tue, Nov 6 2012 Analysis & Opinion Forgive and forget in emerging debt? Related Topics World » 1 of 2. A reporter works in an editing room of Stan.TV Internet portal in Almaty November 21, 2012. The Central Asian state of Kazakhstan has moved to ban two opposition movements critical of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and to close dozens of opposition media outlets for ''propagating extremism''. Credit: Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov By Dmitry Solovyov and Robin Paxton ALMATY | Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:10am EST ALMATY (Reuters) - The Central Asian state of Kazakhstan has moved to ban two opposition movements critical of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and to close dozens of opposition media outlets for "propagating extremism". In a step the opposition denounced as an attack on dissent in the oil-exporting former Soviet republic, prosecutors linked their request to last month's jailing of Vladimir Kozlov, leader of the unregistered Alga! or "Forward!" party. Kozlov was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years for trying to rally workers in a failed attempt to topple the government. After his trial, the United States accused Kazakhstan of using its justice system "to silence opposition voices". Nazarbayev, 72, has run Central Asia's most successful economy and largest oil producer for more than two decades, tolerating little dissent in pursuit of market reforms and foreign investment that has exceeded $150 billion. As well as leading Alga!, Kozlov, a fierce critic of Nazarbayev, was leader of the country's unofficial Halyk Maidany, or People's Front movement, which tried to unite groups with specific grievances against the government. He was found guilty of colluding with fugitive anti-government billionaire Mukhtar Ablyazov and of orchestrating dissent among striking oilmen in the prelude to riots last December that killed 15 people and dented Kazakhstan's reputation for stability. Nurdaulet Suindikov, spokesman for the prosecutor-general's office, on Wednesday accused the two opposition movements Kozlov led and various media outlets of "propagating extremism". "Kozlov's sentence established that the activity of the unregistered Alga! and Halyk Maidany movements, as well as the activity of a number of mass media outlets, was extremist," he said. Suindikov said prosecutors in Kazakhstan's commercial capital, Almaty, had asked a court to ban the two movements as well as the media outlets. Reporters Without Borders said it was "appalled" by the prosecutor-general's move and urged the Almaty court to reject a request it said would push Kazakhstan closer to the "ultra-authoritarian model" of neighbors Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. "If granted, pluralism would quite simply cease to exist in this country. The government is using the pretext of combating extremism to launch an unprecedented offensive against its critics," the Paris-based media watchdog said in a statement. 'UNDECLARED WAR' Kazakhstan's marginalized opposition enjoys little support among voters. The country has never held an election that Western monitors have deemed fair, but Nazarbayev is popular in the country of 17 million for presiding over relative stability. Suindikov said prosecutors were seeking the closure of eight newspapers and 23 Internet sites that operated under the umbrella of the Respublika publisher, as well as the Vzglyad newspaper and its Internet sites. Oksana Makushina, deputy editor-in-chief of the Golos Respubliki newspaper - part of the Respublika group - said her publication would try to get round any court order. A photograph of a decapitated dog hangs in the paper's Almaty offices, a reminder of a grisly delivery in 2002 after it published a series of articles alleging corruption. "They may close the paper in legal form, but given the presence of the Internet, it is hard to do so in reality," Makushina said. "We will continue fighting, unless we are put in a prison cell next to Kozlov." Mikhail Sizov, another leader of the Alga! party, said he believed Kozlov's imprisonment for his part in the Zhanaozen riots was the beginning of a wider campaign to destroy the entire opposition movement in Kazakhstan. "There is virtually an undeclared war going on between Mukhtar Ablyazov and Nursultan Nazarbayev," Sizov told Reuters. The satellite TV channel K+ and the Internet portal Stan-TV are among the other media outlets targeted by prosecutors. State television ran a documentary this week that identified Ablyazov as the financial backer of both channels. Baurzhan Musirov, director of Stan Production, which runs the Stan.KZ portal, denied this. The channel's reporters were first on the scene when oil workers in overalls began kicking over speakers at an Independence Day concert in Zhanaozen on December 16 last year. Musirov ranks Stan.KZ's coverage of Zhanaozen, including the seven-month labor dispute that preceded the violence, as the portal's most significant contribution to reporting on events in Kazakhstan. But he denied any allegiance to opposition groups. "We raise questions and we look at different problems," he said. "Those who watch our material see a picture that doesn't exist everywhere." Ablyazov, meanwhile, has been on the run since February. He had been sentenced to 22 months in prison for contempt of court in Britain, where he had earlier received political asylum. His current whereabouts are unknown. A theoretical physics graduate who built a fortune by snapping up banking and media assets in the 1990s after the Soviet Union collapsed, Ablyazov has said he fell out with Nazarbayev after campaigning for a change of government. 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