According to the Agency for Communication and Information, 2 VKontakte groups - ”Give Northern Kazakhstan back to Russia” and “Northern Kazakhstan is a part of Russia” – were deleted on the basis of official complaint department.

“The information placed by the users of the groups contained violations of both Kazakh and Russian legislation on the prevention of encroachment on state sovereignty, territorial integrity, propaganda of ethnic hatred and discord,” highlighted the ACI.

Earlier the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan reported that it is impossible to control social media. “Social media is a specific sphere which cannot be verifiable. If such kind of group exists, it is impossible to control the thoughts of people. We are actually talking about a marginalized group of people who express opinions of the absolute minority of a marginal strata of Russian society,” commented the appearance of these groups the Deputy Foreign Minister Yerzhan Ashikbaev at a briefing of SCC.

Scandalously famous Russian MP Vladimir Zhirinovsky, speaking live on a televised rally on February 23 via Russia 24, called to deprive the Central Asian countries of their independence. Another politician, an opposition leader Eduard Limonov on his Facebook page called the government to annex some of Ukraine’s and Kazakhstan’s territories in light of the unrest in Ukraine and the exchange rate fluctuations in Kazakhstan.

According to Lavrov, he was ashamed that such statements were made by Russian politicians. “I consider them inappropriate,” he said. He also pointed out that in line with the Russian legislation, the official position of the state can be declared only by the President, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He said that the persons who are legitimately authorized to voice Russia’s foreign policies would never say anything resembling Zhirinovsky’s or Limonov’s statements.

Source: Tengrinews.kz