Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. After almost 80 years with an alphabet imposed by Moscow, Kazakhstan is getting its own script and possibly a new name.

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev has called on his government to begin preparing to shift the nation's ...

The ongoing switch from Cyrillic to a Latin-based alphabet in Kazakhstan has been widely presented as a step toward modernization and global integration by Kazakh officials. However, in Russian media, ...

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has signed a decree setting out plans to switch from a Cyrillic-based script for the Kazakh language to a Latin-based alphabet. The decree posted on the ...