MOSCOW (AP) — Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has agreed to restore the former name of the country's capital just three years after he renamed it in honor of his predecessor, his spokesperson ...

MOSCOW (AP) — The president of Kazakhstan on Saturday signed constitutional amendments that extended the presidential term to seven years and brought back the old name of the country's capital. The ...

Kazakhstan's parliament on Wednesday voted to rename the country's capital in honour of long-time ruler Nursultan Nazarbayev, a day after he resigned as president. Astana, the government's showpiece ...

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 to ...