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...Kazakh. What he represents is a country of Boratastan, a country of one." ROMAN VASILENKO, Kazakhstan press secretary, on Borat Sagdiyev, the bumptious, fictional Kazakh TV reporter created by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Borat, whose antics have drawn the ire of Kazakh authorities, was turned away from the White House during President Nursultan Nazarbayev's visit to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

...Rossia recently discovered that the island of Sporny was full of farmers who had fled collectivization. Located in the middle of a river and source of a squabble about which province should control it, Sporny had spawned farmers who had fenced off their properties-sin of sins. Farmer Zakhar Vasilenko was so capitalist that he owned four cows, 150 sheep, had an outrageous annual private income of $7,500. Moaned Sovietskaya Rossia: "The garden plots of the past are being revived before our very eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Capitalismus Atavis | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

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