(Bloomberg) -- Just three years after he renamed the capital city after outgoing leader Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has changed his mind. Tokayev agreed to a ...

Nur-Sultan, the capital city of Kazakhstan, is no stranger to transformation. Formerly known as Akmolinsk in the 19th century, during Russian rule, and then Tselinograd after the 1960s, the city was ...

NUR-SULTAN -- Lawmakers in Kazakhstan's capital have approved a proposal to change the name of the city back to Astana from Nur-Sultan as part of President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev's campaign to create "a ...

Continuing my travels through the ex-Soviet states, I reached Astana (now, Nur-Sultan City) from Tashkent. Ever wondered what would happen if someone were to play Minecraft in real life? Like, build ...

Many residents of Nur-Sultan have joined climate-change campaigners and activists to protest a development project that will reduce the size of Small Taldykol, a picturesque lake southwest of the ...

When Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed holding a snap presidential election this fall, 18 months ahead of schedule, he followed the announcement with another proposal: limiting the ...

MINSK, 26 July (BelTA) - The CIS Ministerial Council and the CIS Council of Heads of State will convene in Nur-Sultan in person, Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee – CIS Executive Secretary ...

As Kazakhstan’s coronavirus crisis appears to grow only more alarming by the day, this hardly felt like the time to celebrate. Officials in the capital, Nur-Sultan, which was last year renamed in ...