Nearly 250 dead seals have washed up on the shores of the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan in the past week, The Associated Press news agency reported quoting local emergency officials.
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April 8, 2007An internet bookmaker based in Kazakhstan is taking bets on who will be accused of murdering former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, and most of the bets are being placed by Russians, the Reuters news agency reports.
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December 15, 2006Half of population of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus are sorry about collapse of the USSR and believe that the Soviet Union could have been preserved, the second half thinks the break-up was inevitable. At that the percentage of those feeling sorry for the collapse of the Soviet Union is the highest in Russia (68%). These are results of a study conducted in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus in November 2006 by Eurasian Monitor International Research Agency.
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December 8, 2006A new Borat book has been shelved because it contains 100 photographs of naked Kazakhstan women.
British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who created the fictional reporter Borat, wants the book to accompany his new movie Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan — but US publishers fear stores will not sell it.
Cohen has reportedly hired models to pose as Kazakhstan women in various states of undress and some photographs are said to be extremely explicit.
British publisher Boxtree has agreed to release the book in the UK — where Cohen’s Ali G book was a bestseller.
However, the Ali G book failed to sell in the US because it contained some rude photographs — and publishers fear the same thing will happen with the Borat book.
Kazakhstan Embassy spokesman Roman Vassilenko is furious with Cohen’s depiction of women. He fumed: “Kazakhstan is a moral country, and women have always played an important part in society. The only true thing about Kazakhstan in the movie is its geographic location.â€
Cohen — who only gives interviews as his alter-ego Borat — recently told US chat show host David Letterman that one of his hobbies was, “taking photos of ladies while they make toiletâ€.
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November 3, 2006At the 12th session of the Assembly of Peoples of Kazakhstan (APK), one of its participants has proposed nominating Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev for the Nobel Peace Prize, Interfax quoted by BBC News reports.
The spokesman at the session suggested that the nomination of Nazarbayev’s candidacy be included in the APK’s final document.
The head of state expressed gratitude for having confidence in him, but he did not support this initiative. “We are working not for awards, but for our country’s prestige,†he said.
After the president’s statement, participants in the session omitted this proposal from the document.
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October 27, 2006In a hundred years or so the new bills issued by the National Bank of Kazakhstan are likely to become a numismatic rarity, the Vremya Novostei newspaper reports.
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