Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, center, arrives to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, ...

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 ...

ASTANA -- Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev says Astana is "an important center of our geopolitical region," while Russian urbanist and blogger Ilya Varlamov calls it "an awful city, unadapted to ...

MOSCOW (AP) — 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 ...