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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- Just three years after he renamed the capital city after outgoing leader Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan President ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has agreed to restore the former name of the country's capital just three years after he renamed it in honor of his predecessor, his spokesperson ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- It was the cherry on the cake in long-ruling authoritarian Nursultan Nazarbaev's already towering cult of personality and, for many citizens of Kazakhstan, it was a topping too ...

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 ...

MOSCOWMOSCOW — Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has agreed to restore the former name of the country’s capital just three years after he renamed it in honor of his predecessor, his spokesperson ...