Earlier this month, Azerbaijan completed its transition to a new Latin script to replace the Cyrillic alphabet in use since the late 1930s. Two Azerbaijani-language newspapers have refused to comply ...

Baku, 1 August 2001 (RFE/RL) -- Azerbaijan today officially ended use of the Cyrillic alphabet in favor of Latin letters. A decree issued several weeks ago by President Heidar Aliyev ordered all ...

A weekly newspaper in Azerbaijan which refused to change its script from Soviet-era Cyrillic to Latin has been forced to stop printing. The owner of Impulse, Xan Husseyn Aliyev, was summoned to the ...

A draft of the updated Latin-based Uzbek alphabet, being discussed for the past two years, has been published in Uzbekistan, media reported with reference to the Uzbekistan National News Agency. The ...

Since the collapse of the USSR, the five former Soviet republics of Central Asia have been debating whether to abandon the Cyrillic alphabet in favour of Latin script. Some argue it more closely ...

The INTRANS Company (national registrar of .the az domain) is technically ready for the registration of Internet addresses using Azerbaijani alphabet letters, CEO of the company Faig Farmanov told ...