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Kazakhstan drafts media law to increase use of Kazakh language over Russian
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Kazakhstan has announced efforts to promote the use of the Kazakh language over Russian in its media, amid growing scepticism over Moscow’s influence in the country since the invasion of Ukraine.
Kazakh is the official language of the former Soviet republic in central Asia, but Russian is recognised too and is widely spoken among the tightly controlled country’s population of about 20 million.
“The draft law on the media stipulates an increase in the share of the state language in television and radio from 50% to 70%,” the culture minister, Aida Balayeva, told reporters in the capital, Astana.
“This transition will take place at a rate of 5% per year from 2025 onwards,” Balayeva said, referring to government plans to promote the Kazakh language since the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades ago.
Kazakhstan, where ethnic Russians comprise about 15% of the population, shares a long border with Russia and retains close political, economic and military ties with Moscow.
The law requires civil servants in the former Soviet country to be fluent in Kyrgyz, and for the media to produce 60% of content in the local language.
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