Russian reaction to the decisions of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to move away from the Cyrillic-based scripts Moscow imposed on them to Latin-based scripts that will help them integrate into the broader Turkic and international worlds has been hysterical to say the least.
Many commentators are denouncing these measures as an attack on the Russian world and a threat to Moscow’s influence over the former Soviet space, and they often profess to see in such ideas the efforts of Turkey and Western intelligence services to weaken Moscow in every possible way.
But as usual in such circumstances, these commentators don’t know their history: …read more
Source: Kabar News Agency
