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Tokayev reprimanded Kazakhstan’s ambassador for “de-Russification” proposal

The diplomat proposed to pass through a referendum a proposal not to use borrowings from the Russian language in Kazakh, and also to rename Kazakhstan and its capital

Kairat Lama Sharif

President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev reprimanded the country's ambassador to Egypt Kairat Lama Sharif for non-compliance with the ethical code of civil servants. This was reported by InformBuro.kz with reference to the press service of the head of state.

“President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev reprimanded Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Arab Republic of Egypt Kairat Kairbekuly Lama Sharif for non-compliance with the requirements of paragraph 9 of the Code of Ethics for Civil Servants of the Republic of Kazakhstan,” the press service said.

According to this paragraph of the Code of Ethics of civil servants of the republic, they should not publicly express their opinion on issues of state policy, “if it does not correspond to the main directions of state policy, discloses official information that is not allowed to be made public and contains unethical statements addressed to state officials, government bodies, other government officials».

As KazTag clarifies, on March 3, the diplomat published on his Facebook page (its owner, the Meta company, was recognized as extremist and banned in Russia ) a post where he proposed to “get rid of the controversial names of the times of the USSR and colonial Russia.” Now the publication is not available on the ambassador's page on the social network, and the content at the link that previously led to the message is not available.

“First of all, it must be recognized that the “region” ("bald")— the key word in the Kazakh language is from the Russian language, and in order to preserve the purity of our state language, the administrative-territorial structure must be written as “өңір”; (region, krai. — RBC)»,— quotes from KazTag Ambassador's post.

Sharif also suggested changing the names for some of the regions and cities of Kazakhstan. So, for example, he intends to return the name of Astana to the capital of the republic, the city of Nur-Sultan, and the former capital— the name of Alma-Ata (now in Kazakh it is Almaty). The name of the republic should also be changed instead of Kazakhstan “Kazakh State”, Sharif believes.

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Tokayev has repeatedly stated that Kazakhstan— a multilingual state, despite the fact that the state language is Kazakh. He also criticized the so-called language patrols, which stage raids to check whether employees of shops or catering facilities can serve customers in Kazakh. “All these actions are organized by professional provocateurs acting on behalf of the special services . All these actions in the language of these services are called active measures, — said the president.

The status of the Russian language is regulated by the Constitution of Kazakhstan, as well as a separate law “On Languages ​​in the Republic of Kazakhstan”.

Article 7 of the Constitution of the Republic states that in state organizations and bodies local government, along with the Kazakh language, the Russian language is officially used and a separate law regulates its use for office work in state authorities, registration of transactions, education, defense of scientific works, etc.

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