A famous actor and entertainment producer in Kazakhstan has waded into a recurrent controversy about language after appearing to endorse the view that it is not always necessary to know Kazakh. The ...

Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev has called on his government to begin preparing to shift the nation's alphabet from the Cyrillic—as used by neighbor Russia—to the Latin. Kazakhstan has ...

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 ...

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, ...

Dubai, Amsterdam and Astana, 11 December 2024: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator, is pleased to note the launch of an open-source Kazakh-language large language model (Kaz-LLM), ...

The president of Kazakhstan’s daughter, who is herself also a high-ranking politician, has waded into the public discussion about the role of the Russian language. Her remarks in defense of Russian, ...

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 ...

In the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan, Caitlin Walczyk practiced her Russian in cab rides across the city of Almaty. The double major in global studies and political science spent nine months in ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan-- One of the most influential businessmen in Kazakhstan, Ramil Mukhoryapov, has found himself in the center of a controversy over a public comment that has been interpreted as an ...