Kairat Almaty: How a Kazakh Football Club Became the World’s Most Cheerful Geopolitical Weapon
Kairat Almaty and the Quiet Theater of Post-Soviet Football Diplomacy By our man in the steppe, nursing a lukewarm Baltika and a colder worldview Almaty, Kazakhstan – On any given Thursday night, while the rest of the planet obsesses over VAR melodramas in the Premier League or the latest cryptocurrency stadium naming-rights fiasco, a modest…