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In April 2017 Nazarbayev ordered the country to start switching to the Latin alphabet, to be finished by 2025. Kazakhstan was forced by the Soviets to replace abandon the Arabic alphabet in favor of the Latin alphabet in 1929, and was forced to switch (again), this time to Cyrillic in 1940.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/kazakh-president-orders-shift-from-cyrillic/28425590.html|title=Kazakh President Orders Shift Away From Cyrillic Alphabet|website=RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty|access-date=2017-07-12}}</ref>
In April 2017 Nazarbayev ordered the country to start switching to the Latin alphabet, to be finished by 2025. Kazakhstan was forced by the Soviets to replace abandon the Arabic alphabet in favor of the Latin alphabet in 1929, and was forced to switch (again), this time to Cyrillic in 1940.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/kazakh-president-orders-shift-from-cyrillic/28425590.html|title=Kazakh President Orders Shift Away From Cyrillic Alphabet|website=RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty|access-date=2017-07-12}}</ref>
===CIA-backed color revolution===
In May 2020 a document published by the [[neoconservative]] think tank, the RAND Corporation, sought to destabilize Kazakhstan in order for the after-effects to spill over into neighboring Russia, with the 7,000km land border shared between both nations being the second largest in the world after Canada and the US.<ref>https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2563z1.html</ref>
Following the deployment of the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to [[Kazakhstan]] however, at the request of Nur-Sultan, the Western-backed [[color revolution]] attempt in was quelled in the space of two weeks, with the military alliance withdrawing from the central Asian country soon after.
===Principal Government Officials===
===Principal Government Officials===