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Kazakhstan plans to use Russian and English on par with Kazakh state language

The new generations of the Kazakh people cannot manage without English

MOSCOW, 6 March. /TASS/. Kazakhstan intends to continue a three-language politics, using Kazakh, Russian and English languages as the three languages spoken in Kazakhstan, President Nursultan Nazarbayev declared at a traditional ceremony held on the eve of the International Women's Day, which was attended by group of prominent Kazakh women.

"The Kazakh language is a state language spoken in Kazakhstan, we should keep it intact and should all learn it; Russian is the language of our integration with the closest neighbors and international communication," the president said.

He also expressed an opinion that a new generation of the Kazakh people cannot manage without English. "Technologies, science, innovations - all that will be presented in English, which should be taught to schoolchildren since the first grade," Nazarbayev said.