MOSCOW (AP) – Kazakhstan has called the playing of a spoof of its national anthem at an international sporting event “a scandal” and demanded an investigation of the incident. Maria Dmitrienko won a ...

The spoof Kazakhstan national anthem heard in Sacha Baron Cohen's 2006 Borat movie has been mistakenly used during a medal ceremony of the 10th Arab Shooting Championship in Kuwait. Video footage of ...

ASTANA — Kazakhstan marks the 90th anniversary of poet Zhumeken Nazhimedenov on Nov. 28, honoring the writer whose verse shaped generations and whose lyrics formed the foundation of the national ...

If Kazakhstan didn't have enough beef with "Borat" already, it sure does now. Shooting sport event organizers in Kuwait were left scrambling for apologies — and the Kazakh team was left furious — ...

A gold medal-winning athlete on Kazakhstan's shooting team was unintentionally dishonored after organizers of a competition in Kuwait mistakenly played a parody of Kazakhstan's national anthem from ...

MOSCOW (AP) – Kazakhstan wants a probe of how a parody of its national anthem instead of the genuine song was played at an international sports competition. Kazakhstan’s Maria Dmitrienko won a gold ...

Kazakhstan's foreign minister on Monday thanked "Borat," the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy that the Central Asian nation once banned for lampooning its people, for massively boosting its tourism. "With the ...

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