Havas Worldwide Kazakhstan designed the poster to promote a gay club in Almaty, Studio 69. The Kazakh poster is a takeoff of the famous kiss between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (left) and East ...

A Kazakh company behind a controversial advertisement for a gay club in Almaty has been ordered to pay about $180,000 to 34 students who filed a lawsuit against the firm.

The 19th-century Kazakh and Russian cultural icons depicted enjoying a kiss on a poster may be long dead. But that has not stopped a court in Kazakhstan awarding massive damages to a group of living ...

A court has fined ad agency Havas Worldwide Kazahkstan 34 million tenge (£116,000) for designing a poster portraying two classical figures engaging in a gay kiss in a scene reminscent of the ...