TEMIRTAU, Kazakhstan -- Two schools in Kazakhstan are being sued by teachers and parents over their switch from Russian to Kazakh as the language of instruction, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.

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 ...

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, ...

It has been 10 years since Kazakhstan adopted a law that enshrined Kazakh as the state language, and required all citizens to learn it. A decade later, major challenges continue to hamper efforts to ...

During the service at Almaty’s Ascension Cathedral, strains of Church Slavic rise from the choir. “Lord have mercy,” they sing in the proto-Russian language still used in the Orthodox Church. As the ...

CHIANG MAI, CHIANG MAI, THAILAND, February 6, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Ling, a leading language learning platform offering courses in more than 70 languages, today ...