The Cyrillic alphabet, the script of Russians (and others), is one of the most widely used systems of writing in the world.

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"The Latin alphabet was used [in Kazakhstan] from 1929 to 1940," Nazarbayev said. "In 1940…a law was adopted transferring the Kazakh language from the Latin alphabet to one based on Russian script.

But the Russian parliament responded by enacting a federal law stating that only the Cyrillic alphabet may be used in Russia, and President Putin ratified that law on December 11, 2002.

Following the switch to Estonian as the only language of instruction in schools, children from Russian-speaking families will not have to learn the Russian alphabet in Russian language classes ...