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After Crimean Events, Nazarbayev Retreats on Kazakh Language

April 9, 2014

Staunton, April 9 – After Crimea, and apparently fearful that Vladimir Putin might target northern Kazakhstan as its next “Crimea,” Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has slowed down if not entirely stopped his efforts to require all officials in that country to speak the national language. Until very recently, Igor Rotar says in a Rosbalt.ru commentary, […]