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.

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 ...

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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, ...