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Kazakhstan Throws Off Soviet Yoke And Goes Latin

Kazakh social media was not friendly to the revelation of the cake, “… I doubt that this amount so easily wasted could have been fairly earned. Those who start their businesses from scratch and work hard to reach something will never throw [millions of tenges] into the toilet in one day,” said one Twitter post.