14) information, propagating suicide – information, inducing to intended
deprivation of own life of a human;
15) distributer – an individual or legal entity, carrying out the distribution of
media products under agreement with its owner, publisher or on other legal grounds;
16) television-, radio channel – mass media, representing set of television-,
radio programs and audiovisual works, plots and materials, formed in accordance with
viewing grid for the following transmission and (or) retransmission;
17) television-, radio, newsreel program – meaningfully finished part of
television-, radio channel that has the relevant name, broadcasting time and may be used
independently from other parts of television-, radio channel;
18) censorship – preliminary coordination of communications and materials by mass
media with the state bodies, officials and other organizations upon their request or on
other grounds for the purpose of restriction or imposition of a prohibition to
distribute communications and materials or their particular parts;
19) broadcast – transmission of television-, radio programs, audiovisual record
with the use of analogue and digital electromagnetic systems;
20) products of erotic nature – printed publication or television-, radio program
that demonstrate sexual relations of people, intimate parts of human body, with the
exception of genital organs, and do not contain the elements of pornography.
Footnote. Article 1 is in the wording of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan
dated 18.01.2012 No. 546-IV (shall be enforced upon expiry of thirty calendar days after
its first official publication); as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan
dated 10.07.2012 No. 36-V (shall be enforced upon expiry of ten calendar days after its
first official publication).
Article 2. Freedom of speech, receipt and distribution of information
1. Freedom of speech, creative work, expression of own views and convictions in
printed and other form, receipt and distribution of information by any method not
prohibited by the Law shall be guaranteed by the Constitution of the Republic of
Kazakhstan.
Censorship shall be prohibited.
2. State bodies, public associations, officials and mass media shall be obliged to
ensure possibility for every citizen to familiarize with documents, decisions and
sources of information concerning his (her) rights and interests.
2-1. Mass media shall be obliged to assist the state bodies, carrying out counterterrorism.
Note of RCLI!
Paragraph 3 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 03.07.2014
No 227-V (shall be enforced from 01.01.2015)
3. Disclosure of details that are state secrets or any other secret protected by
the Law, propaganda and acquitment of extremism or terrorism, distribution of
information, disclosing techniques and technical tactics of antiterrorist operations in
the period of their conducting, propaganda of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances
and precursors, as well as cult of inhumanity, violence and pornography shall not be
allowed.
Note of RCLI!
Paragraph 4 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 03.07.2014
No 227-V (shall be enforced from 01.01.2015).
4. Use of mass media for the purpose of commission of administrative infractions
or criminally punishable acts shall not be allowed.
Footnote. Article 2 as amended by the Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated
08.07.2005 No. 67 (the order of enforcement see Article 2); dated 06.02.2009 No. 123-IV