Kazakhstan finally reconciled with Borat - the film helped the country, announced the Foreign Ministry

The scandalously known film by the British comedian Sasha Baron Cohen “The Cultural Cognition of America, for the benefit of the glorious people of Kazakhstan, contributed to the growth of tourist interest in the country, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic, Yerzhan Kazykhanov.

“With the release of this film, the number of visas issued by Kazakhstan has increased ten times. And I am grateful to Borat for helping to attract tourism to Kazakhstan,” Interfax quotes his statement at the government hour in the Mazhilis (Lower House of Parliament) on Monday.

Meanwhile, the head of the Foreign Ministry recalled the incident when, during the awarding ceremony of the Kazakhstani athlete, Maria Dmitrienko, who won the exercise at the Kuwait championship, a song from the film "Cultural Cognition of America, for the benefit of the glorious people of Kazakhstan."

"We carefully studied the situation related to the problems that have arisen recently. Unfortunately, we have no diplomatic representation in Kuwait today. But all our embassies have been given strict instructions to bring to all foreign ministries all the statevas of Kazakhstan. This is being done constantly, repeatedly, whenever we open the embassy or consulate, we transmit a package of state attributes that are further in further Used, ”the minister said.

“It may be difficult to say that this is the direct fault of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but we do not relieve ourselves of responsibility, and we will work,” Khazykhanov assured.

Recall that the film by Sasha Baron Cohen was shot several years ago. In it, the author, using the image of a fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiev, spoke about the country in unpleasant angles and assessments about a country in which he had never been.

In Kazakhstan, the Borat film was not officially prohibited. But Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry explained to sales companies that they should show responsibility and not show the film. The representative of the Foreign Ministry, Mudar Karibai, in an interview with the Azattyk radio, called actor Sasha Baron Cohen a mentally unhealthy person and threatened him with a "trial." Then Cohen, a Jew by nationality, answered in the spirit of his screen hero: "I fully support my government in the decision to sue this Jew."

The fictional hero of Cohen, the Kazakh television journalist Borat Sagiev, was even officially recognized by the US State Department as the victim of censorship by the Government of Kazakhstan, when in 2005 the government of the republic considered the content of the satirical site belonging to Sasha Baron Cohen and blocked it in the domain zone .kz. "