Beatlemania in Kazakhstan as country hosts first Beatles festival (Telegraph)
(AP) - Where better to leave a lion overnight than in a dingy van in a parking lot? At least that’s what a circus owner in northern Kazakhstan thought when he went off for a catnap at the end of a long day’s driving after buying the lion.
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Well-known Kazakh businessman missing (RFE/RL)
Kazakhstan’s scrum queens (EurasiaNet)
(Reuters) - Smoke from Russia’s deadly wildfires has spread into northern regions of Kazakhstan but poses no immediate danger to residents, the Kazakh Emergencies Ministry said on Friday.
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Kazakhstan plans homegrown ‘Borat’ sequel - report (AFP)
In Kazakhstan’s energy hub, profits slow to trickle down (EurasiaNet)
(AFP) - A director in Kazakhstan is set to shoot an unofficial sequel to British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s unflattering 2006 send-up of the ex-Soviet state, media reported on Saturday.
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