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Nazarbayev
Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev ( kk, Нұрсұлтан Әбішұлы Назарбаев, Nūrsūltan Äbişūlı Nazarbaev, ; born 6 July 1940) is a Kazakh politician and military officer who served as the first President of Kazakhstan, in office from country’s independence in 1991 until his formal resignation in 2019, and as the Chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2022. He held the special title as Elbasy (meaning "Leader of the Nation", ) from 2010 to 2022. Nazarbayev was one of the longest-ruling non-royal leaders in the world, having led Kazakhstan for nearly three decades, excluding chairmanship in the Security Council after the end of his presidency. He has often been referred to as a dictator due to usurpation of power and autocratic rule. He was named First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR in 1989 and was elected as the nation's first president shortly before its independence from the Soviet Union. In 1962, while working as a ...
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Nur Otan
Amanat (), previously known as Nur Otan () until 2022, is a big tent political party in Kazakhstan. Being the largest to date, it has been the ruling party of the country from 1999, with a membership claiming to be of over 762,000 people in 2007.Kazakhstan: Ruling Party Gets Even Bigger
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Amanat is led by since 26 April 2022. Under the 21-year leadership of former President since the party's founding, Amanat had constantly won Kazakhstan's
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Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Kassym-Jomart Kemeluly Tokayev ( kk, Қасым-Жомарт Кемелұлы Тоқаев, Qasym-Jomart Kemelūly Toqaev ; born 17 May 1953) is a Kazakh politician and diplomat who is currently serving as the President of Kazakhstan since 12 June 2019. Shortly before that, he served as acting president after the resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who previously held the presidential post for nearly three decades. Born in Alma-Ata (now Almaty), Tokayev attended the Moscow State Institute of International Relations where after graduating in 1975, he worked as a diplomat in Singapore and China. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Tokayev became the Deputy Foreign Minister of a newly independent Kazakhstan in 1992, where he was involved on the issues of nuclear disarmament within the former Soviet republics. In 1999, Tokayev became the Deputy Prime Minister, and in October of that year with the endorsement of the Parliament, he was appointed as Prime Minister by President ...
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Karim Massimov
Karim Qazhymqanuly Massimov ( kk, Кәрім Қажымқанұлы Мәсімов, ; born 15 June 1965)Kazakhstan moves to name new PM
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is a politician who served as a from 10 January 2007 to 24 September 2012 and again from 2 April 2014 to 8 September 2016. Massimov served as from 19 January 2006 to 9 January 2007
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President Of Kazakhstan
The president of the Republic of Kazakhstan ( kk, Қазақстан Республикасының Президенті, Qazaqstan Respublikasynyñ Prezidentı; russian: Президент Республики Казахстан, Prezident Respubliki Kazakhstan) is the head of state of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The president is the holder of the highest office within the Republic of Kazakhstan. The powers of this position are described in a special section of the Constitution of Kazakhstan. The position was established on 16 December 1991, after independence of the country. The current president is Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. He became acting president on 20 March 2019 due to the resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev. Symbols The president of Kazakhstan's decorations include a breast mark and a presidential standard. Unlike Presidents of most countries, they also have a military rank insignia. Presidentia ...
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Imangali Tasmagambetov
Imangali Nurgaliuly Tasmagambetov ( kk, Иманғали Нұрғалиұлы Тасмағамбетов, ''İmаnğаli Nūrğаliūly Таsmаğаmbеtоv''; born 9 December 1956) is a Kazakh politician and diplomat, who is the current Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. He was the Kazakh Ambassador to Russia from 2017 to 2019. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 2016 to 2017 and Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan from 2014 to 2016. He was the akim of Astana from 2008 to 2014 and from 2004 to 2008, as akim of Almaty. Before that, from 2002 to 2003, he was the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan.New Kazakh Government Formed, Sets Out Priorities.
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Tasmagambetov stated that he resigned as PM after finding out about t ...
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Bakhytzhan Sagintayev
Bakhytjan Abdiruly Sagintayev ( kk, Бақытжан Әбдірұлы Сағынтаев, ''Baqytjan Äbdırūly Sağyntaev,'' ; born 13 October 1963) is a Kazakh politician who was a Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, from 9 September 2016 until his resignation on 21 February 2019. He served as the Äkim of Almaty from 28 June 2019 until he was replaced by Erbolat Dosaev on 31 January 2022 following the 2022 Kazakh unrest which greatly affected the city. Early life and education Sagintayev was born in the village of Usharal. His father, Abdyr Sagintayev (1921–1986), was a World War II veteran who worked as the director of the Talas Sheep Breeding Plant. In 1985, Sagintayev graduated from the Kazakh State University with a degree in economics. That same year, he became a lecturer at the Department of Political Economy of the Alma-Ata Institute of National Economy. From 1988 to 1992, he worked at the Kazakh State University, where he went from an assistant to an assistant professor ...
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Adilbek Zhaksybekov
Adilbek Ryskeldiuly Zhaqsybekov ( kk, Әділбек Рыскелдіұлы Жақсыбеков, ''Ädılbek Ryskeldıūly Jaqsybekov'') (born 26 July 1954) is current Head of the Executive Office of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He served as the minister of defence from June 2009 to April 2014. He was the head of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's administration.New Kazakh Presidential Administration Chief Appointed
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He served as the Mayor of from 1997 to 2003Moscow Mayor meets ...
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Nurlan Nigmatulin
Nurlan Zairollauly Nigmatulin (, born 31 August 1962) is a Kazakh politician who served as the Chair of the Mazhilis from 22 June 2016 to 1 February 2022 and from 20 January 2012 to 3 April 2014. Prior to that, he headed the Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan, and was the first deputy chairman of Nur Otan from 2009 to 2012, and äkim of Karaganda Region from 2006 to 2009. Early life and career Nurlan Nigmatulin was born to a Kazakh Muslim family in Karaganda as the son of Zairullah (Zaırollah) Nigmatulin and Zainab (Zeynep) Kariyeva. In 1984, he graduated from the Karaganda Technical University as a mechanical engineer. That same year, he became an engineer and the head of the motor convoy of the Karagandaoblgaz Enterprise. From 1985 to 1990, Nigmatulin served as the First Secretary of the Leninist Young Communist League (Komsomol) of Kazakhstan, deputy head of the department of Komsomol organizations of the Central Committee of Youth of Kazakhstan, Secretary, and t ...
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Daniyal Akhmetov
Daniyal Kenjetaiuly Akhmetov ( kk, Даниал Кенжетайұлы Ахметов, ''Daniyal Kenjetaiūly Ahmetov''; born 15 June 1954) is a Kazakh politician who was the 6th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 13 June 2003 to 9 January 2007.New Kazakh Prime Minister chosen
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Critics refer to him as "The Terminator", a nickname he gained as the akim of Pavlodar Region for his actions in suppressing supporters of Galymzhan Zhakiyanov, the previous äkim.New Kazakh Government Formed, Sets Out Priorities.
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On 8 January 2007, he resigned as Prime Minister. He did not say why, but President of Kazakhstan ...
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Serik Akhmetov
Serik Nyghmetuly Akhmetov ( kk, Серік Нығметұлы Ахметов, translit=Serık Nyğmetūly Ahmetov, ; born 25 June 1958) was a Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 2012 to 2014. He served as the Minister of Defense from April to October 2014. Akhmetov served for a time as first deputy akim of Astana before being appointed to government as Minister of Transport and Communications on 25 September 2006. He has also served as Chairman of the Board of the Atameken National Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers of Kazakhstan since 2005. From March 2009, Akhmetov served as Deputy Prime Minister before becoming the akim of Karaganda Region in November 2009. In January 2012, he was appointed as the First Deputy Prime Minister before becoming PM following the resignation of Karim Massimov on 24 September 2012. In November 2014, Akhmetov was arrested after being accused of committing a crime while serving as an äkim of Karaganda Region to which he was convicted in December 20 ...
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Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov
Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov ( kk, Бақытжан Тұрсынұлы Жұмағұлов, ''Baqytjan Tūrsynūly Jūmağūlov''; born 18 August 1953) is a Kazakh politician who was Chairman of Otan and after renamed Nur Otan, the largest political party in Kazakhstan.Kazakh President Appoints New Transportation Minister
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and acting chairman of Nur Otan party, created by merging a number of other parties into Otan. Zhumagulov told reporters in a news conference in Astana on 25 September 2006 that Otan and Asa ...
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Akezhan Kazhegeldin
Akejan Kajegeldin ( kz, Әкежан Мағжанұлы Қажыгелдин, ''Äkejan Mağjanūly Qajygeldin''; born 27 March 1952) is a Kazakh politician who served as the 2nd Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 12 October 1994 until his resignation on 10 October 1997, ostensibly for health reasons,Kazakhstan's Kazhegeldin conspicuous by his absence
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though many saw it as an act protesting in . He has accused President
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