Expecting a major, if probably hysterical, hit to its image in the coming weeks, with the release of the new "Borat" movie, the government of Kazakhstan has taken out a four-page advertising section in today's New York Times and International Herald Tribune.

It comes as Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev is about to meet with President Bush, starting today. The ad kicks off with a large photo of the two men shaking hands at the White House in 2001.

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