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  • Take That, Borat: Kazakhstan Runs 4-Page Ad Section in 'N.Y. Times'

    11/28/2005 10:08:27 AM PST · by LdSentinal · 22 replies · 11,556+ views
    Editor & Publisher ^ | 11/28/05 | E&P Staff
    NEW YORK As if responding to the escalating battle with famed TV personality Borat Sagdiyev, a character on HBO's "Da Ali G Show," the Kazakhstan government today published a four-page advertising section in The New York Times. The section, titled, "Kazakhstan in the 21st Century," carried testimonials to its oil production, its democracy, education system, and purported "power and influence" of women. The feud has been simmering for the past year, after Borat and his frank depictions of life in his homeland (where, he claims, gypsies are still hunted for sport and women rank somewhere below farm animals in the...