Sacha Baron Cohen has pissed of an entire country. That's what happens when you create a comedic persona that is wickedly funny, politically incorrect and mocks the 15 million people of a former Soviet republic. Cohen's masterful creation is none other than Borat Sagdiyev, a ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Red Corner: Borat gets Reprieve
Sacha Baron Cohen has pissed of an entire country. That's what happens when you create a comedic persona that is wickedly funny, politically incorrect and mocks the 15 million people of a former Soviet republic. Cohen's masterful creation is none other than Borat Sagdiyev, a ...Red Corner: Peter Hopkirk's Central Asia comes Alive
Until just recently, Central Asia had all but disappeared from the world's consciousness. Swallowed up by the Soviet Union in the early part of the 20th century, places like Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan simply vanished anonymously from the world stage.
After ...Red Corner: Crazy Kazakh Capital
It is not so often that the capital of a country is up and moved, but if you've ever been to Almaty you'd understand the desire to do so.
Almaty is a boring, nondescript town that was the capital of Kazakhstan during Soviet times. But, when communism fell and Nursultan ...
