Kazakh authorities don’t mince words when it comes to who will occupy the country's highest office. Anyone with his or her eyes on the presidency -- to be decided in snap elections on April 3 -- must ...

The parents of some 1,200 students in the central Kazakh town of Temirtau have until September to find another school -- that is, if they want to continue their studies in their first language, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Languages change. Sometimes slowly and organically, sometimes quickly... and on purpose. Kazakh President Nursaltan Nazarbayev wants the people of Kazakhstan to use Latin script (rather than Cyrillic) ...

Kazakhstan’s planned transition to a Latin alphabet is intertwined with issues of national identity, geopolitical shifts, and post-colonial discourse. In Kazakhstan, talk about switching from the ...

VEON (VEON) noted the launch of an open-source Kazakh-language large language model, developed by a consortium coordinated by the Ministry of Digital, Innovations, and Aerospace Industry of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dubai and Astana, June 3, 2025: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON” and together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”), is pleased to announce the launch of “AI Tutor”, a ...

Kazakhstan embraced independence 30 years ago, yet is still actively nation-building around language, shared history, and cultural diversity with the over 100 ethnic groups living in the vast Central ...