Kazakh envoy seeks to dispel "Borat" image
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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut  - Kazakhstan's envoy to the United States on Tuesday defended his country against "misconceptions" caused by the hit comedy film "Borat" and its misogynistic, anti-Semitic, fictional Kazakh TV reporter.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON  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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The main Kazakh opposition party on Friday abandoned its efforts to get a court ruling on the legitimacy of recent parliamentary polls that were internationally criticized as flawed.
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A leading Kazakh writer has nominated actor Sacha Baron Cohen for a national award for popularizing Kazakhstan. Novelist Sapabek Asip-uly called on the Kazakh Club of Art Patrons to give Baron Cohen its annual award, according to a letter published by the Vremya newspaper Thursday.
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In an interview with the BBC, Kazakhstan's prime minister threatens foreign oil companies with a 'Plan B'.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Monday with Kazakhstan's foreign minister as the U.S. sought closer ties to the oil-rich country despite what critics call its disturbing backslide toward autocracy.
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President Nursultan Nazarbayev will hold an internet-conference on the 7th of June, 2007 to answer questions from users of the global network, according to a report from the Kazakh Presidential website.
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He may be experienced at fielding  questions on geopolitics but when the Kazakh president logs on  next week for his first Internet news conference he will have  to tackle some more bizarre matters.
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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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The son-in-law of the Kazakh president mounts a challenge to his rule after being sacked as an ambassador.
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Fictional gay cowboys and a faux reporter from Kazakhstan suffered human rights abuses in 2006 as crackdowns on flesh and blood victims were extended to the Internet, award-winning films and noted plays worldwide, the State Department says.
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LOS ANGELES - A judge weighing whether to halt the DVD release of &quot;Borat&quot; viewed a scene from the hit film in which a group of South Carolina fraternity brothers converse with the raucous Kazakh journalist played by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
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US ambassador to Afghanistan ZalmayKhalilzad on Monday rejected the reported allegations of interfering in the ongoing presidential election process in the post-war nation.
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Blasts that rocked the headquarters of President Nursultan Nazarbayevâs Otan party were an attempt to destabilise Kazakhstan, the party said on Monday, shrugging off a police theory of an act of hooliganism.
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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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ALMATY, Jan 7  A ban on one of Kazakhstan's main opposition parties is part of a new clampdown on dissent in the authoritarian oil-rich Central Asian state to prevent a Ukrainian-style ''orange ...
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Britain&#39;s former ambassador to Uzbekistan has accused the Foreign Office of trumping up false allegations in an attempt to force him from his post.