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By Quentin Langley

It cannot be great that the first association most people have with Kazakhstan – the ninth largest country in the world by area, and heir to part of USSR’s space programme – is a comedy film written by a Cambridge-educated Jewish guy from Britain. 

But when Kazakhstan’s shooting team won a medal at the Asian championships in Kuwait it was Sacha Baron-Cohen’s version of their national anthem that was played. Apparently, none of the organisers, who had downloaded the anthem from the internet, noticed that the lyrics were in English, and boasted that the country has “the cleanest prostitutes in the region”.

Whoops!