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Kazakh president laughs off 'Borat' controversy


November 22, 2006 Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, is a box-office hit in the United States and Europe despite fierce debate over its main character's controversial opinions. British-born Sacha Baron Cohen, 35, plays a moustachioed Kazakh journalist who tours the United States expressing misogynistic, racist and anti-Semitic views. Baron Cohen's jokes have become a public relations headache for Kazakhstan as the former Soviet state seeks to portray itself as a modern nation of well-educated professionals and a major non-OPEC oil exporter.

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