FILE PHOTO: Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Nursultan Nazarbayev attend the Astana Economic Forum in Nur-Sultan (Reuters) - Nursultan Nazarbayev, stripped on Wednesday of his role as head of Kazakhstan's ...

As a young man, Nursultan Nazarbayev was a steel mill worker in Temirtau in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. He was a member of the Komsomol, the Leninist Young Communist League. He then rose to ...

Individuals and companies associated with Kazakh billionaire Vladimir Kim — long viewed as a close ally and financial proxy ...

MOSCOW–Nursultan Nazarbayev, the longtime leader of Kazakhstan, Central Asia’s richest country, has always had a rather particular sense of humor. Back in 1998 he moved the country’s capital from the ...

Kazakhstan has found its way into the Western news with Syrian peace talks in the capital, Astana. Since little news comes out of the landlocked Central Asian nation, it is worth looking at the ...

People’s Daily online news agency reported on Dec. 25 that a Chinese Food Festival was held in Astana, drawing residents ...

President-elect Donald Trump spoke over the phone with Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev earlier this week, praising the dictator for the country’s “miracle” during his reign, according to a ...

Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev lost his status of honorary senator on Thursday as the upper house removed the title from its regulations. "There is a decision of the Constitutional Court.

LAST SUMMER Nursultan Nazarbayev, the urbane leader of Kazakhstan, scoffed at rumors that he wished to be president of the former Soviet republic for life. Nowadays, it appears, that may be his ...

When party loyalists flatter Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, they compare him to the outstanding reformers of the epoch like Ataturk, Mahatma Gandhi or Charles de Gaulle. But if Mr ...

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev says he will resign the post he has held for nearly 30 years, abruptly announcing the end of an era that began in the early 1990s. But Nazarbayev, 78, also said ...