Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sergey Kamshylin via Shutterstock Kazakhstan is to adopt a new alphabet, replacing the Russian Cyrillic script with the alphabet ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — In his 26 years as Kazakhstan’s first and only president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev has managed to keep a resurgent Russia at bay and navigate the treacherous geopolitical waters ...

Kazakhstan is contemplating a switch to the Latin alphabet. With the President Nursultan Nazarbayev himself raising it, observers think it may well become reality. Addressing the Assembly of Peoples ...

Kazakhstan has barely had time to start getting used to its new alphabet before the president decided to put out a new one. In this version, the much-mocked apostrophes have been dropped in favor of ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. ASTANA -- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has decreed changes in the Latin-based alphabet that is to replace Cyrillic in the Central Asian country, ...

Kazakhstan’s planned transition to a Latin alphabet is intertwined with issues of national identity, geopolitical shifts, and post-colonial discourse. Kazakh has been written in a Cyrillic script ...

President Trump met with Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, on Tuesday to discuss economic partnerships. But perhaps the bigger headline about the former Soviet Republic is that it is ...

ALMATY -- Kazakhstan has held a nationwide exam to test students' proficiency with the Latin alphabet, part of the former Soviet republic's shift away from Cyrillic. The 30-minute test was held ...

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, ...

Dmitrii comments at neweurasia on Kazakhstan's decision to change the Kazakh language's alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin, saying that it was the right choice to make. (RUS) Global Voices stands out as ...