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Article: LANGUAGE COPS OUT IN AZERBAIJAN COUNTRY SWITCHES TO LATIN ALPHABET.(NEWS)

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August 10, 2001
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BAKU, Azerbaijan -- The billboards have been torn down. The shopkeepers have been warned: All signs in Cyrillic - a vestige of this impoverished nation's 70 years as part of the Soviet Union - must go.

Last week, the whole of Azerbaijan switched to the alphabet you're looking at - its third change of script in the past century.

These are heady days for the country's language cops. According to a June decree by President Geidar Aliev, all official documents, commercial signs and outdoor advertising, as well as Azerbaijani-language newspapers, magazines and books, must change to the Latin alphabet.

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