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Kazakhstan: An MP wants to ban Halloween

Written byAdil Nurmakov
Posted 17 November 2010 15 years ago

KZBlog reports that a member of Parliament is asking the prime minister for a ban on “a Satanic holiday” Halloween, and notes that this is not the first proposal to ban Western holidays or TV shows on the post-Soviet space.

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