A day after Kazakhstan's authoritarian leader Nursultan Nazarbayev resigned after 30 years in power, the country's parliament voted to rename the capital, Astana, after him. The decision to rename ...

Kazakhstan’s president took a major swipe on January 11 at the legacy of his predecessor and mentor, the former president Nursultan Nazarbayev, while delivering a speech in which he promised to ...

Kazakhs could be excused in recent weeks for thinking they were stuck in a rerun of Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous -- or perhaps the rich and infamous. Kazakhstan's long-serving first president and ...

The only president an independent Kazakhstan had ever known, Nursultan Nazarbayev shocked his country when he announced he would step down after nearly 30 years in power. Nazarbayev, 78, has led the ...

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev invited Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev to visit Kazakhstan in May, KyrTAG reported quoting the press-service of Kyrgyz president. It is reported that ...

Kazakhstan’s First President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who turns 80 next month, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to his own press service. The brief statement released on June 18 ...

Kazakhstan’s powerful former president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has emerged for the first time since the violent unrest that roiled the energy-rich nation this month, denying any power struggle among ...

Last week, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, resigned after 30 years in power. At 78 years old, Nazarbayev’s resignation had become all but inevitable, but the events of Mar. 19 still ...

MOSCOW — Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said Tuesday that he was stepping down, touching off a potentially perilous period of transition in one of the world’s most geopolitically fragile ...

A plane carrying 98 people crashed in Kazakhstan early on Friday, killing at least 12 people, authorities have said. The plane, a Fokker 100, was operated by Bek Air, and crashed into a building in ...

NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan — It took nearly three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but this former Soviet republic will be taking its first baby steps toward democracy on Sunday when ...

Nursultan Nazarbayev, who had been absent during the recent unrest that gripped the country, said he supported the country’s leader and the economic reforms he has proposed. By Valerie Hopkins ...