By moving the capital from Almaty, which is a thoroughly Russianized city, the government wants to Kazakhize the political center of the country.

But Johnson says he knows the score and intends to approach the challenges ahead with a strong sense of realism. I don't want to chase rainbows, he said.

[I]t is moſt certaine, that after Herodotus and other auncient writers, it is ſafer to call theſe [elephants' tusks] teeth, then hornes; and I will breefly ſet downe the reaſons of Philoſtratus, that will haue them to be teeth, and afterward of Grapaldus [i.e., Francesco Mario Grapaldi], Aelianus, and Pauſanias, that would make them horns, and ſo leaue the reader to conſider whether opinion he thinketh moſt agreeable to truth. […] Thus they argument for the horns of Elephants.

I've got a damn sight more DVDs than he has.