Kazakh anger yet to subside over ‘offensive’ Borat

BORAT beware: Accept an invitation by a top Kazakh official to discover what the country is really like and you could be in for a nasty surprise.

Kazakh anger yet to subside over ‘offensive’ Borat

“I’d kill this impostor on the spot,” said Eltai Muptekeyev, who makes his living in Almaty by posing for photos with a blindfolded falcon clinging to a thick leather glove.

As comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s movie about his bigoted, English-mangling creation Borat Sagdiyev hits screens in Europe and the US, the horror and outrage among Kazakhs over the way their nation is being misrepresented has not gone away.

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