Kazakhskaya Pravda is a semi-monthly Russian-language

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

 newspaper printed in Almaty

Almaty

Almaty , also known by its former names Verny and Alma-Ata , is the former capital of Kazakhstan and the nation's largest city, with a population of 1,348,500...

, Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

, with a print run of 5,000. , the editor in chief

Editor in chief

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 was Aldan Aimbetov, a graduate of the Kazakh State University (Al-Farabi University

Al-Farabi University

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University , also called KazGU or KazNU, is a university in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Named after the Muslim scholar, it is the country's primary and largest university....

). He has held that position since 1993. The United States' Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

United States' Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

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 describes their political position as "nationalist". Pal Kolsto of the University of Oslo

University of Oslo

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's Institute of East European and Oriental Studies goes as far as to call them "extremist". They are unusual among Kazakh nationalist-oriented newspapers for publishing in Russian rather than the Kazakh language

Kazakh language

Kazakh is a Turkic language which belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages, closely related to Nogai and Karakalpak....

.

Political conflicts

Kazakhskaya Pravda was shut down by the General Prosecutor's office in April 1995 under the charge of "inciting ethnic tension". By September, according to the Minister of Press and Mass Media, the paper was allowed to resume publication. In 2000, Kazakhskaya Pravda was again in court, bringing charges against Irina Savostina of the Pokoleniye political movement, over comments she made during a television interview on KTK and which were also printed in the newspaper Soldat, in which she accused Aimbetov of being connected to the National Security Committee

National Security Committee

The National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan is an intelligence agency in Kazakhstan. It was founded on 13 July 1992.-History:...

 of Kazakhstan. An article in Kazakhskaya Pravda published in January 2004, "Kazakhs face a hidden threat", written by a non-staff writer of the paper, claimed that Uyghur immigrants in Kazakhstan

Uyghurs in Kazakhstan

Uyghurs in Kazakhstan form the country's 7th-largest ethnic group, according to the 1999 census.-Migration history:There is a centuries-old history of population movements between the territories which are today controlled by the neighbouring Republic of Kazakhstan and the People's Republic of China...

 were separatists and terrorists; it drew severe criticism from the Society for Uyghur Culture of Kazakhstan as well as the Kazakh government, and Kazakhskaya Pravda eventually printed a retraction, pointing out that their paper had always shown strong support for the Uyghur "national liberation movement".

Conflicts with other newspapers

In 1998, an article in the newspaper Karavan accused Aimbetov of using his paper as a platform to publish antisemitic materials; Kazakhskaya Pravda filed suit against Karavan in response and won ₸

Kazakhstani tenge

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260,000 in compensation. The April 2002 edition of Kazakhskaya Pravda featured in-depth content on another Kazakhstani newspaper Megapolis, accusing them of defaming the country's honour; Megapolis responded in an editorial soon after entitled "With such a patriot, Kazakhs need no enemies" (С таким патриотом казахам и врагов не надо).