At the end of last month Kazakhstan's ageing authoritarian President Nursultan Nazarbayev created a stir when he ordered officials to speak in the state language, Kazakh, rather than the country's ...

Rauan Kenzhekhanuly, head of the Kazakh Language society, outlined the results of the 2025 action plan. Key priorities ...

ALMATY – Growing up in Esil, a predominantly Russian-speaking town in northern Kazakhstan, Aleksei Skalozubov didn’t feel the need to speak Kazakh, the country’s state language. The situation didn’t ...

This week, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with officials responsible for shepherding the Kazakh language from its present Cyrillic script into a Latin alphabet. As reported by RFE/RL, ...

The Russian press often presents Latinization in Kazakhstan through a politicized lens, relying on conspiratorial framing, colonial nostalgia, and mockery. Kazakhstan’s planned transition to a Latin ...

ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakhstan will allow cabinet and parliament members to speak Russian, the Central Asian nation's government said on Thursday, softening the tone of an earlier statement by ...

A decision reportedly adopted by Kazakh-language primary schools near Kazakhstan’s capital to allow instruction in some classrooms to take place in Russian is angering local champions of the native ...

Almaty, Kazakhstan, 16 May 2023 – VEON Ltd. (VEON), a global digital operator that provides converged connectivity and online services, today announced that its Beeline Kazakhstan operating company ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- A Kazakh language activist has fled the country after authorities launched a probe against him on a charge of inciting ethnic hatred over his YouTube videos showing him demanding ...

A small group of self-appointed Kazakh-language inspectors fanning out across Kazakhstan is inciting nationalist chest-thumping in Russia, one of the country’s closest allies. The patrols were begun ...