With 77 percent voting to approve constitutional changes that nix the "leader of the nation," Nazarbayev's star has truly faded in Kazakhstan. Despite his resignation from the presidency in March ...

The Nazarbayev family’s prestige and power have experienced a precipitous decline over the past few years. Since 2022, incumbent President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s administration has ...

Mr Nazarbayev came to power in 1989 as first secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the only man to lead the country since it emerged from the ...

Kazakhstan has renamed its capital Astana to Nursultan to honour outgoing leader Nursultan Nazarbayev, who unexpectedly resigned on Tuesday. The change was announced after Kassym-Jomart Tokayev ...