ASTANA -- Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev says Astana is "an important center of our geopolitical region," while Russian urbanist and blogger Ilya Varlamov calls it "an awful city, unadapted ...

The Astana International Financial Center (AIFC) is the brainchild of Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan’s long-serving president. He's been around since the days of the Soviet Union.

The new Astana International Financial Center (AIFC) in Kazakhstan could very well be one of the more successful efforts in this regard. Its fate is the matter of location, timing and vision.

Central Asia has rarely found itself in the center of geopolitics, even though it is quite literally in the center of the world. This week however, the world arrives in Astana, Kazakhstan. Russian ...

Astana Expo City 2017 is well under construction. The site of the next international exposition in Astana, Kazakhstan, was designed by Chicago -based Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG).

Astana International Financial Center governor Renat Bekturov explains the unique position of Kazakhstan as a "gateway" for countries including China to engage in trade with central Asia. He also ...

No one really knows how much it is going to cost Kazakhstan to establish Astana as central Asia’s pre-eminent city. The official figure put on all the new construction is $1 billion, but that is ...

Air Astana, the national carrier for Kazakhstan officially opened its new Flight Training Centre at Astana International Airport today, with the facility being the first in Central Asia certified ...