KZBlog

An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘Borat Sagdiyev’

  • Deputy Calls for Solution to Evolution/Creation Debate

    I never did get around to posting about the Kazakh student who beat up 2 men in the UK after hearing them make a joke about Borat. I then failed to post about member of Parliament in Kazakhstan, Bekbolat Tleukhan’s reaction to the attack, mainly that he blames Sascha Baron Cohen because “our students abroad […]

  • Guess Who’s Back? Back Again?

    Believe it or not, there’s going to be another film about Borat. Without the participation of Sascha Baron Cohen however. Kazakh director, Erkin Rakishev is planning a movie called My Brother, Borat which is apparently about what happens when an American fan of Borat’s comes to Kazakhstan and finds out that it is a developed […]

  • Borat Is Good for Kazakhstan

    Yet again Mr. Sagdiyev has made the news. The Deputy Minister of Tourism and Sport, Kenzhebay Satzhanov, said recently that Borat boosted tourism by 13%. Speaking at tourism industry fair in London, Vice Minister Satzhanov said, “It was free of charge advertising and lots of people want to come and see our country…The rise (in […]