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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by vbezhenar on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @05:16PM (#16926246)
You can move away from Russia as a person. You can't move away from Russia as a country. Those countries are just next to one other, their border probably longer than Europe's perimeter. You have to think for hundreds of years when you're talking about breaking relationships between nations. Putin will die in max 30 years, probably earlier. He's extremely unlikely to be the next Russia's President. Russia might turn 180 degrees in 5 years. Many things might happen. That's even if yours words are true, which I don't fully support.
Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by kolinko on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:54PM (#16927116)
Many countries did - see Estonia, or Poland.

My parents' generation in Poland used to speak and read Russian, have Russian friends and so on. The majority of "trade" was also with Russia.

Nowadays, everyone learns English, the new generation doesn't read cyrylic. The trade between us and Russia is a weak shadow of it used to be.

Feels kind of like breaking up with an abusive partner, who kept you under lock for many years, telling you they are the best that can ever happen to you, and that you'll never be happy with anyone else ;)

Changing the alphabet is one of the steps towards building trade and relationships with English-speaking world. Good for them.

Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by shmerl on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @05:53PM (#16926584)
> You can't move away from Russia as a country.

Russia pretty much caused Georgia and Ukraine to do it, thanks to the absurd aggression of the Russian mafia government. So surely you can, if there is enough will for it. First major step should be reducing economic dependency.

Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by Mike90 on Thursday April 26, 2018 @06:56AM (#16930748)
"...Russia pretty much caused Georgia and Ukraine thanks to the absurd aggression of the Russian mafia government..."

whatever you say western troll

https://consortiumnews.com/2016/09/12/pushing-nato-to-russia...

Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by dang on Thursday April 26, 2018 @10:16PM (#16937970)
Please don't attack others or use HN for political battle, no matter how wrong another comment is, and regardless of which side you favor. All that is what we're trying to avoid here, so we'd appreciate it if you'd read the site rules and follow them when posting to HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html