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 series of lawsuits have been brought over a poster showing a same-sex kiss in Kazakhstan. The poster, created by an advertising agency, shows two significant historical figures kissing – the ...

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 ...

Havas Worldwide Kazakhstan says it can't pay the 34 million tenge ($186,000; £115,000) fine, and plans to appeal. The agency's general director says the ruling is "nonsense". "Not one of the 34 ...

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 ...

News; UK News; Human rights; Woman thrown in Kazakhstan jail over 'menstruation protest poster' asked degrading questions by judge in court Lesbian activist Zhanar Sekerbayeva was convicted of ...

An advertising agency has been handed a large fine for a poster of revered Kazakh bard Kurmangazy locked in a passionate kiss with Alexander Pushkin, Russia's national poet. Havas Worldwide ...