Why do they speak Russian more than their own native language?

It's a soviet-built country. It didn't exist beforehand.

when Mexicans came over from Spain they slaughtered all the aztecs

If my memory is correct, there were more Russians than Kazakhs especially in cities under the soviet era because most of kazakhs had been nomads who were only sparsely populated.
there's no wonder minority kazakhs had received educations in Russian language quite a while.

the ~80% figure that people throw around only respresents the ability to speak russian at any level. most kazakhs speak kazakh than russian or a mixture of both and it's becoming more and more widespread. also

Russian might not be the world's biggest, easiest or most important language, but it still gives you access to enormous business, cultural and scientific opportunities. When your country has less than 20 million people and most of them speak Russian, you would be shooting yourself in the foot by willingly refusing those opportunities. I don't know the exact numbers, but I'm pretty sure that at least a third of all Kazakh cognitive output is dedicated to translating stuff from Russian to their language.

Why do you speak Spanish more than Aztec?

By the way, if we just measure the amount of printed text in Kazakh language, Russia would confidently trump Kazakhstan by that metric because most products in our country have labels in Russian+Kazakh for some reason.

i'm gonna be real, chief, i dropped all russian content once i learned english. all the sites and youtube channels simply couldn't compete. i even finished my diploma by using english sources more than the russian ones

Pretty good call after learning what the Aztecs were doing before the Castilians arrived

what even makes you think that?

I did the same thing. But we're a minority. According to Wikipedia, 11% of Russians and 15% of Kazakhs speak English. And, well, how much Kazakh sources did you use for your diploma? Was there even any relevant literature on your topic which wasn't translated from English or Russian?

>when Mexicans came over from Spain

holy shit cuman bros we got BTFO

I will go visit Almaty Kazakhstan soon :)
Any tips from Kazakh anons? What to do and what places to visit there?

Inside travelling tips from me:
"Shanyrak" neighborhood is quite spectacular, especially at nights.
"Kalkaman" as well, trve kazakh experience, also at nights you'll see a lot of pretty girls here, so be sure to wear your best clothes and expensive jewelry, kazakh girls love that shit.
"Sayakhat" station, especially up the Pushkina street is filled with delicious street food, and young gentlemen will offer you cheap mobile phones, quite good for people who love to collect rare electronics.