The stereotype that Russian is an impossibly hard language comes from Russians themselves who don’t need to learn it and thus don’t really know anything about it. I try to hammer away at this ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The Kazakh language has long been unsure which alphabet to find a comfortable home in and it's now in for another transition - but this is not without controversy. Last Friday Kazakh President ...

Cyrillic is an ancient script dating back more than 1,000 years with the earliest form of the alphabet emerging in Bulgaria in the 9th Century. But some Bulgarians have found their Twitter accounts ...