Kazakhstan is to adopt a new alphabet, replacing the Russian Cyrillic script with the alphabet you are reading at the moment. This was announced in October by the Kazakh president, Nursultan ...

Kazakhstan’s planned transition to the Latin alphabet raises complex questions. While alphabets may not be important in and of themselves, they play an important role in helping define a nation’s ...

ASTANA -- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has decreed changes in the Latin-based alphabet that is to replace Cyrillic in the Central Asian country, abolishing apostrophes that came under severe ...

Kazakhstan, one of the 15 former Soviet republics, decided to abandon the Cyrillic alphabet, used in Russia and other Slavic countries, and return to the Latin alphabet over 70 years after shedding it ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Kazakhstan news every morning. It took only a few hours after my arrival in Astana, Kazakhstan’s futuristic capital, to appreciate the ...

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