ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- In Russian versions of the Harry Potter books, the main hero is rendered somewhat awkwardly as "Garry Potter," in line with standard English to Russian transliteration. In the ...

VEON (VEON) noted the launch of an open-source Kazakh-language large language model, developed by a consortium coordinated by the Ministry of Digital, Innovations, and Aerospace Industry of the ...

ALMATY – Growing up in Esil, a predominantly Russian-speaking town in northern Kazakhstan, Aleksei Skalozubov didn’t feel the need to speak Kazakh, the country’s state language. The situation didn’t ...

Kazakhstan has amended its immigration and naturalization framework, imposing a history and language test as a condition for obtaining citizenship. The changes are part of a broader government effort ...

Dubai, Amsterdam and Astana, 11 December 2024: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator, is pleased to note the launch of an open-source Kazakh-language large language model (Kaz-LLM), ...

Kazakhstan’s government is introducing fresh rules to ban discrimination on linguistic grounds in the workplace just as a rowdy public conversation unfolds around the status of the Kazakh language.

This week, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with officials responsible for shepherding the Kazakh language from its present Cyrillic script into a Latin alphabet. As reported by RFE/RL, ...

Russians who have relocated to Kazakhstan say the country has raised its language requirement for residency permits, with some reporting that applicants must now demonstrate Kazakh proficiency at the ...

Kazakhstan embraced independence 30 years ago, yet is still actively nation-building around language, shared history, and cultural diversity with the over 100 ethnic groups living in the vast Central ...