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Meanwhile in ... Kazakhstan, an entire nation is struggling to learn a new alphabet

Last year Kazakhstan’s president-for-life Nursultan Nazarbayev decreed that the country would switch from reliance on Cyrillic script to use of Latin script – a move away from the

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