Welcome Kazakhstan & Second-Life Astana

Yes, Second Life goes more international than we first thought.
Welcome Kazankstan! This is apparently the government's effort to improve Western perceptions of the country. It might work, I don't know. Go visit Astana and tell me if it improves yours. :)

"But social service Second Astana is something more, the first spots (central block of the left-bank Astana from Bayterek to the Pyramid) of the Kazakh land in the popular virtual world of Second Life, with which the developers seem to be in the process of establishing cooperation."

If you can read cyrilic writing, the original news story is here.

otherwide, the blog blurb can be found here:
kazakhstan.neweurasia.net » Second-Life Astana