{"id":43638,"date":"2026-02-11T18:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=43638"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:14:15","slug":"kazakhstan-gradually-moves-away-from-the-russian-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/results\/rf-en\/kazakhstan-gradually-moves-away-from-the-russian-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan gradually moves away from the russian language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A draft of Kazakhstan\u2019s new Constitution proposes revising the wording that defines the status of the russian language.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f The sentence stating that the russian language is used \u201con an equal basis\u201d with Kazakh is proposed to be replaced with the wording \u201calongside Kazakh.\u201d Although the changes appear formal, they reflect Kazakhstan\u2019s consistent policy of gradually reducing russia\u2019s influence over its domestic affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Kazakh is de facto becoming the country\u2019s primary language. In public administration, education, and the public sphere, the use of Kazakh is increasingly prevailing over russian.<\/p>\n<p>Following the launch of russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kazakhstan has been distancing itself from russia not only in humanitarian matters. In December, Kazakhstan restricted russian nationals\u2019 ability to launder funds and circumvent sanctions through Kazakh banks.<\/p>\n<p>While the Kremlin remains focused on its war against Ukraine, russia continues to lose its positions in Central Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A draft of Kazakhstan\u2019s new Constitution proposes revising the wording that defines the status of the russian language. \u25ab\ufe0f The sentence stating that the russian language is used \u201con an equal basis\u201d with Kazakh is proposed to be replaced with the wording \u201calongside Kazakh.\u201d Although the changes appear formal, they reflect Kazakhstan\u2019s consistent policy of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}