All Stories: Nursultan Nazarbayev

ALMATY: Kazakhstan's anti-corruption agency said Wednesday it had seized jewels worth more than $230 million, in a case involving the nephew of ex-leader Nursultan...

"Astana is now officially renamed Nursultan," the state-owned Kazinform news agency said after a parliamentary vote.

Nursultan Nazarbayev, 78, ruled Kazakhstan since before the collapse of the Soviet Union and leaves no obvious successor.

ASTANA: Kazakhstan inaugurated on Tuesday a new internationally-controlled uranium fuel bank seen as potentially important in curbing nuclear proliferation and reducing regional security tensions. The bank...