Here's one of our first pics with M., age 7 months, at the Delphin Baby House in Kostanay. Kazakh ‘Lamb Ladies’ Respond to British ‘Lettuce Ladies’ with Gusto
Two Kazakh models, Assel and Aliya, staged a counter-demonstration on Almaty’s main square on Independence Day calling on their compatriots to reject calls from foreigners to go vegetarian and continue eating meat.
Freezing Animal Rights Campaigners in Almaty
Chilly Vegetarians by tienshanMichael Steen of Reuters reported an odd happening on Almaty Square: two British animal rights campaigners wearing bikinis made of lettuce leaves urged people of Kazakhstan to stop eating horses and go vegetarian in a freezing -8 °C in Almaty.
I was amused by this 2004 item from a news blog called IndyBay:
Global monitors find faults By Thomas Crampton International Herald Tribune Wednesday, November 3, 2004MIAMI The global implications of the U.S. election are undeniable, but international monitors at a polling station in southern Florida said Tuesday that voting procedures being used in the extremely close contest fell short in many ways from the best global practices.