Kazakh reporter beaten

    Journalist and Kazakhstani National Archive employee Ularbek Baitailak was severely beaten near his residence in an Astana suburb at about midnight August 8, the Kazakhstani journalism NGO Adil Soz said in a statement. He was hospitalized.     Baitalak wrote for the newspapers Dat and Tortinshi Bilik (Fourth Estate) and the magazine Altyn...