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.

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 ...

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 ...

Kyrgyzstan’s top linguistic official has said his country will switch to the Latin alphabet from the Russian-based Cyrillic system, news outlets have reported. Kyrgyzstan’s top linguistic official has ...