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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by thirduncle on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @05:08PM (#16926187)
Instead Russian language has strange status as a "language of international communication" and basically they are trying to suppress its usage.

Well, that's kind of the whole point behind the move (or at least a big part of it), actually.

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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by rimliu on Thursday April 26, 2018 @04:30AM (#16930036)
This also supresses the amount of propaganda coming from Russian media. If you have not seen it, you would not believe how bad it is.
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