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Kazakhs want Russian names removed from map
Saturday May 05, 2012 10:29:29 AM,
RIA Novosti
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Moscow: A Kazakh group has asked the
government to remove Russian names from the map of Kazakhstan,
saying the names were a "gloomy legacy of Soviet totalitarianism".
The group sent a letter to the government, calling themselves
artistic intellectuals.
They said the Russian names were also "menacing reminder of our
country's (Kazakhstan) colonisation".
Kazakhstan was a former Soviet republic.
In the letter addressed to the government, parliament and
constitutional council, the group demanded that government members
and state officials be required to take exams in the Kazakh
language, and proposed a list of jobs with compulsory knowledge of
the native language.
Under the constitution, the Kazakh language has the status of the
state language. But a point in the constitution says Russian
language can be used on par with Kazakh in government
organisations and local administrations.
Activists have been demanding that the second point be removed
from the constitution. But the government has refused to support
the move.
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