September 13, 2022 17:38 CET By RFE/RL's Kazakh Service Kazakhstan changed the name of its capital city from Astana to Nur-Sultan in 2019. (file photo) Share Print ...

The name was changed to Nur-Sultan in March 2019, in honour of outgoing President Nursultan Nazarbayev. The change is effective immediately, according to a decree on the presidential website.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev changed the city’s name to Nur-Sultan in 2019 in a nod to his predecessor and the first post-Soviet president, Nursultan Nazarbayev.

NUR-SULTAN, January 8. /TASS/. The first president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, stays in the capital of the republic and maintains direct contact with the current president Kassym-Jomart ...

I’m in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, reporting on the recent upheaval in this resource-rich crossroads whose allegiance is coveted by Russia, China and the United States. I’m trying to figure out ...

In June 2019, the Kazakh band Opia x Kisa v kolese released a song called “I am dying in Nur-Sultan,” referring to the capital of Kazakhstan but also to the cult of personality surrounding its ...

Guinness nominee for the largest mosque in Central Asia is set to open in Kazakhstan’s capital city, Nur-Sultan. The project is built under the special initiative and supervision of Nursultan ...