Borat Was Right: Kazakhstan Is Smarter, I

"A group of students held a protest in Almaty today to demand an end to the growing personality cult of President Nursultan Nazarbaev.

One protester, Muhammet Ziadin, told RFE/RL's Kazakh Service that the purpose of the demonstration was to challenge the practice of pouring praise on Kazakh leaders.

He said all the officials in the country are competing with each other in their attempts to compliment the president. The protesters had helium-filled balloons with the names of Kazakh officials on them and let them go into the sky, saying that the "masters of adulation should leave Kazakhstan like the balloons."

The protest was held in front of the offices of the presidential Nur-Otan party. Police did not interfere."

-- Kazakh Service, proving this problem (of unthinking cultists blindly following politicians) is big everywhere, and needs a healthy dose of Radio Free Liberty.

And isn't this a nice graphic for a cult-driven administration that - only two weeks in - hasn't gone one day without an ethics scandal?

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