After a two-year ban, Kazakhstan has restored access to the most popular Russian-language bloghosting service, LiveJournal, which is operated from Russia. The Kazakhstan government has never explained or officially admitted the existence of the ban on LiveJournal, nor has it explained why it was lifted. One theory is that the “secret ban” was related to the now-suspended blog of Rakhat Aliyev, formerly a Kazakh media tycoon, state official, and son-in-law of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev. After a 2007 conflict with his father-in-law, Aliyev sharply criticized President Nazarbayev in his blog, and is now a divorced fugitive wanted in Kazakhstan on various criminal charges. On November 9, 2010 the LiveJournal administration permanently suspended Aliyev’s blog on the grounds that its entries “invade the privacy and libel another person.” On November 13th, access to LiveJournal in Kazakhstan was restored.
http://lenta.ru/articles/2010/11/16/gettinbetter/
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