Kazakhstan's acting President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, right, and Former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev shake hands in front of supporters in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, June 7, 2019.

AN ERA in Kazakhstan has been defined by its president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, a onetime steelworker who led the former Soviet republic out of the empire’s chaotic implosion. Now Mr. Nazarbayev ...

But Nursultan Nazarbayev, the 78-year-old who has run Kazakhstan since 1989, is trying to find a third way. On March 19th he took to the airwaves to announce his retirement as president of the oil ...

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced his resignation Tuesday, after nearly three decades in office. The former Communist Party official is the last of the leaders who were running the ...

MOSCOW — Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said Tuesday that he was stepping down, touching off a potentially perilous period of transition in one of the world’s most geopolitically ...

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 ...

In the waning days of December, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has taken part in a flurry of televised events. On December 22, he appeared in the presidential palace surrounded by eight ...

Nursultan Nazarbayev, the autocratic former president, all but vanished after violent protests this month. But with his legacy so pervasive, will anything change? By Valerie Hopkins NUR-SULTAN ...

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 ...

President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has ruled Kazakhstan since the fall of the Soviet Union, is edging closer to becoming a de-facto leader for life after parliament awarded him with a new title.

Kazakh President Tokayev says he “openly told Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev that the political arrogance of his close associates almost destroyed the country.” Era of the First President ...