Google decided to redirect all visitors of its Kazakhstan site, google.kz, to a page in Kazakh at google.com, after the Kazakh Ministry of Communications and Information issued an order requiring all .kz domain names to operate on physical servers within Kazakhstan. “We find ourselves in a difficult situation: creating borders on the web raises important questions for us not only about network efficiency but also about user privacy and free expression. If we were to operate google.kz only via servers located inside Kazakhstan, we would be helping to create a fractured Internet. So we have decided to redirect users that visit google.kz to google.com in Kazakh. Unfortunately, this means that Kazakhstani users will experience a reduction in search quality as results will no longer be customized for Kazakhstan,” Google's senior vice president Bill Coughran commented in a blog post.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/229738/google_redirects_kazakh_search_traffic.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/changes-to-open-internet-in-kazakhstan.html
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