ALMATY – Kazakhstan further loosened cultural ties with its former political masters in Moscow on Feb.27 when a ban on speaking Russian in cabinet meetings took effect – despite many ministers favoring that language over their native Kazakh.
Reuters: Lost in translation? Kazakh leader bans cabinet from speaking Russian
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) confers with Kazakistan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev during a Security Council meeting on Non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Jan.18.
