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Less than a month after its editor-in-chief was sentenced to eight years in prison, major Kazakh news site Orda.kz has ceased publication - a move the owner claims is financial, but press freedom advocates call the culmination of a systematic state crackdown.

One of Russia’s most notorious alleged criminal figures, Semyon Mogilevich — long wanted by U.S. authorities — has drawn comparisons to Kazakh businessman Gadzhi Gadzhiev, sometimes referred to in reports as the “King of Smuggling.”