ALMATY, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's parliament renamed the Central Asian nation's capital from Nur-Sultan to Astana on Friday, the latest move by government officials and politicians to ...

The president of Kazakhstan on Saturday signed constitutional amendments that extended the presidential term to seven years and brought back the old name of the country's capital. The changes are ...

And yet again, the capital of Kazakhstan is to change name. Following a period of considered reflection, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev revealed through his spokesman on September 13 that the city ...

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The capital's name was changed to Nur-Sultan in March 2019, in honour of outgoing President Nursultan Nazarbayev [File: Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters] Published On 17 Sep 202217 Sep 2022 Kazakhstan’s ...

Astana became the capital of Kazakhstan in 1997 when Nazarbayev, who led the country for three decades under the Soviet Union and after it gained independence in 1991, moved it there from Almaty.

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