WASHINGTON -- "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" may have prompted Americans to run and find Kazakhstan on a map. But another recent development appears to have a growing number of Washington insiders talking seriously about political discord in the massive former Soviet republic.
A rising young Kazakh politician visited Washington recently trying drum up support from U.S. policy makers and journalists for his newly established and reform-minded Kazakh political party -- the official registration of which he claims is being obstructed by his country's "draconian law on political parties." ...
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