Kazinform

Kazinform
Type News agency
Founded 1920
Headquarters Astana, Kazakhstan
Official website
 www.inform.kz

Kazinform (Kazakh: ҚазАқпарат, translit. QazAqparat) is a Kazakh international news agency and one of largest media in Kazakhstan. It is based in Astana. The news agency mainly focuses on national and Eurasian news.

It has its own romanization system for Kazakh which was based on Turkish Latin, in anticipation to the transition from Cyrillic to Latin which was targeted to be complete by 2025, but it was never considered by President Nursultan Nazarbayev. The president commented that the new alphabet should contain "no hooks nor superfluous dots". The new Latin alphabet approved by Nazarbayev, which contain apostrophes corresponding certain Cyrillic alphabets, received mixed reactions from the public and linguists.[1] Currently, Kazinform's romanization system is still used in their website.

History

Until 1925 the news agency bore the name Orenburg-Turgay Department of ROST. It was then renamed KazROST, until it was again renamed KazTAG in 1937. President Nursultan Nazarbayev issued an order for the agency to be renamed in 1997 as KazAAG. In 2002 it was named Kazinform by the Kazakh government. Since 2008 the news agency belongs to the holding company Arna-Media.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apostrophes".
  2. ↑ Kazinform. "About us".


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