Nursultan Nazarbayev
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Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev is a Kazakh politician who served as the first president of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019. He also held the special title of Elbasy from 2010 to 2022 and chairman of the S
Nazarbayev in 2025
Nazarbayev (front row, second from left) at the signing of the Alma-Ata Protocol, 21 December 1991
Nazarbayev taking the oath of office
Nazarbayev (three rows from left) at the 1992 World Economic Forum chaired by Henry Kissinger in Davos
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
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Kassym-Jomart Kemeluly Tokayev is a Kazakh politician and diplomat who has served as the second president of Kazakhstan since 2019. He previously served as Prime Minister from 1999 to 2002 and as Chai
Nursultan Nazarbayev
…in 2011 and 2015. In March 2019, following a wave of protests and increasing discontent, Nazarbayev announced his resignation, handing over power to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Tokayev was elected president in a snap election in June 2019. While Nazarbayev stepped down from the presidency, he remained a powerful figure in…
Tokayev in 2026
Tokayev with President Nursultan Nazarbayev (right) during a visit to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, September 2004
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev with Yukiya Amano
Tokayev speaking at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, October 2012