Word: kazak
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...some truth to the saying "There is no sex in the Soviet Union." When Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan hit cinema screens in 2006, few were surprised that the real-world home of Borat, the idiot-innocent Kazak main character, decided to ban the film as a matter of pride. But now censors in Ukraine are giving his latest film, Brüno, the same no-show treatment, claiming morality - not hurt feelings - as the reason...
...This was the third heavyweight title fight in Moscow in the last year, since the current wave of homegrown boxers has overtaken the division. An ex-Soviet fighter holds each of the four heavyweight championship belts: Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko (IBF), Kazak Oleg Maskaev (WBC), Uzbek Ruslan Chagaev (WBA), and the Russian Ibragimov...
...years, on the borders of the vast, desolate, far western Chinese province of Sinkiang, imperial Britain and imperialist Muscovy, Red Russian and White, China's bandits, warlords, Communists and Nationalists skirmished for power and position. None of them, however, won the allegiance of the hard-riding Kazak tribesmen who wandered the empty plains. Islamic nomads of remote Turkish origin, the proud and independent Kazaks went on pitching their flannel tents, eating only meat, playing polo with the inflated skins of whole sheep and 200 men on a team, proclaiming allegiance to Allah alone, and generally thumbing their noses...
Over the Hills. Last year, with the Nationalists finally driven to the hills, the Russians widened the caravan trails through Sinkiang and brought their tanks and heavy artillery to bear on the Kazaks. In four battles, the rebellious tribesmen lost 3,000 killed. Osman was captured and killed. His 5,000-odd survivors split into groups and headed south. Last week, after months of agony, picking their way through uncharted passes across the highest mountains in the world, one party of 120 Kazak men, women & children reached the end of the trail-Mohammedan Kashmir and its "City...
...often had no water and no fuel," said the goateed Kazak Thaji (Chief) Kussa In. "Sometimes we lived only on the animals' milk. Often we killed camels to get drinking water." Forty of the Thaji's party, including the youngest of his three wives, nine brothers, and two boys, aged one and five, were lost. One night while they slept in their tents at Urduk on the Tibetan frontier, the nomad refugees were attacked by Communists, who killed eight men and drove away 300 sheep, 13 camels and 25 horses. "But we killed ten Reds," said Thaji Kussa...