The strategy is a complete 180 away from the response to the first Borat movie in 2006, which saw the government ban the film from ever playing, threaten to sue Sacha Baron Cohen, and publish a four page advertisement “defending the country’s honor” in the aforementioned New York newspaper.
Kazakhstan’s tourism board has decided to take a surprising tactic in response to the recent release of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, according to the New York Times, and has made moves to make “Kazakhstan.
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