The Bloody January turmoil stemmed partly from public alienation from a political system monopolized by Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan’s first president, who ruled for three decades before handing ...

Opinion polling indicates that voters will approve a new constitution for Kazakhstan in a referendum on March 15. The draft that citizens will vote on represents a near total rewrite of the existing ...

President Paul Kagame arrived in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, on Tuesday, May 27, for an official visit, during which he will also deliver remarks at the Astana International Forum. Kagame and ...

When Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev floated the possibility of a constitutional referendum in his September 2025 state of the nation address, he set 2027 as a target date. Tokayev had proposed ...

Many Kazakh students are now studying Chinese, while universities and language centers across the country are introducing new Chinese language ...

Last week, Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Commission published the full draft of a proposed new constitution and its overview of the document. The commission framed the next step as a nationwide ...

March 2 (Asia Today) --Ethnic Koreans in Kazakhstan are commemorating the victims of Soviet-era forced deportations, recalling the mass relocations carried out under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in the ...

Kazakhstan is tired of geography-impaired Westerners confusing it with those other inferior -stan countries. And President Nursultan Nazarbayev is ready to do something about that problem. He does ...