Kazakhstan: Astana wants Kazakhstanis to Speak Kazakh

    By Joanna Lillis     Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev (right) meets Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Washington, D.C., during a nuclear security summit in April 2010. The Nazarbayev government is considering a plan to get 95 percent of the population speaking Kazakh by 2020 – an ambitious goal for the Central Asian...