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 ...

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 ...

From the moment he was elected two years ago Russian President Vladimir Putin has argued that he has to reign in Russia's 89 provinces and semi-autonomous districts in order to get Russia moving again ...

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 ...

The Kazakh language will change from Cyrillic to Latin script as part of a modernization and development effort. The move is also viewed as an attempt to distance the language from Russian and promote ...