U.S. to Kazakhstan: Be nice to Borat
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Borat, that crass chronicler of the American condition, has been singled out by the State Department as a victim of suppression in his own homeland.
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NEAR ARKALYK, Kazakhstan  - A Soyuz capsule made a  soft landing in the pitch-dark in Kazakhstan's steppes on  Sunday, and its U.S.-Russian crew said they were happy to  breathe in the smell of Earth after a long stint in orbit.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan -- A Russian-US crew returned safely to Earth from the international space station, their Soyuz space capsule streaking through the atmosphere and landing on target in the steppes of Kazakhstan early Sunday.
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A modest proposal for a better world through 'Borat.'
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Borat, the fictional TV reporter from Kazakhstan, may have gotten under the skin of Kazakh officials but on Thursday he couldn't get past the gates of the White House.
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Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov heads to the United States next week to explore closer energy ties with the West for his gas producing state in a trip certain to irritate Russia.
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Text of report by Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency  Astana, 12 June: Kazakhstan intends to set up a space reconnaissance and flight control system in order to position its forces, the head of the National Space Agency (Kazkosmos), Talgat Musabayev, has said.
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Gleaming hotels, the region's best pastrami sandwiches and the planet's largest population of wolves: these are things Kazakhs want the world to know about their country &#151; not the outrageous claims of the British comedian who portrays them as primitive and bigots.
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Michael Moore looked to his friend Borat to help muster the nerve to sail into Guantanamo Bay. Moore met "Borat" creator Sasha Baron Cohen at last fall's Toronto International Film Festival.
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President Bush heaped praise Friday on the president of Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country important to the United States as an oil supplier and war-on-terror ally but which has a political system that stifles dissent.
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Who needs Borat? Kazakhstan just might. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, whose government initially bristled at a British comedian's portrayal of the country, is using the famous name to his own ends.
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By Brandon Loomis  Bloomis@adn.Com, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun.
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The son-in-law of Kazakhstan's autocratic president has appealed to Austrian authorities not to extradite him to his homeland to face kidnapping charges, a magazine reported Saturday.
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There's no such thing as bad publicity, the president of Kazakhstan joked on Tuesday as he welcomed the attention lavished on his country by the comedy film "Borat."
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The United States on Friday echoed  European concerns that Kazakhstan's parliamentary election may  be unfair because authorities and media favor the parties of  the president and his daughter.
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Treading a fine line between US strategic goals and his drive for global democratization, President George W. Bush Friday hosts Nursultan Nazarbayev, president of oil-rich, Muslim-majority Kazakhstan.
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Miss Kazakhstan Gauhkar Rakhmetalieva defends the mockumentary "Borat", criticised as an unfair smear against the country, saying it was "only a joke" and gave the nation much needed publicity.