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Kazakhstan: Borat credited with tourism increase

Written byOnnik Krikorian
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Posted 24 April 2012 13 years ago

RFE/RL's Transmission blog says that despite once protesting how ‘Borat’ depicted the country, Kazakhstan is now crediting the 2006 film with increasing ten-fold the number of tourists visiting the country.

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