Continuing my travels through the ex-Soviet states, I reached Astana (now, Nur-Sultan City) from Tashkent. Ever wondered what would happen if someone were to play Minecraft in real life? Like, build ...

And yet again, the capital of Kazakhstan is to change name. Following a period of considered reflection, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev revealed through his spokesman on September 13 that the city ...

All these combined allow us to see that Kazakhstan is in the midst of a cultural moment. According to the Ministry of Tourism ...

Astana is a modern capital rising from the Kazakh steppe, known for its futuristic architecture, extreme climate, and role as a Central Asian political and cultural hub. The city defines itself in ...

ASTANA -- Police in Astana have detained about 20 people who protested against renaming Kazakhstan's capital after former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev, who stepped down from the post earlier ...

The first things you notice about Astana, Kazakhstan’s capital, are not the grandiose, glistening new government buildings that dominate the skyline for miles around, nor the vast tracts of flat ...

In the north of the massive country of Kazakhstan, I landed in Astana. It was an unlikely tourist destination, but the capital intrigued me. From the airport, 13 km away, I waited less than 10 minutes ...

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 ...

With a showman’s flourish, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev on July 5 opened a financial services center in Astana that is intended to assert the nation’s claim to becoming a modern player ...

On the surface, Russian President Vladimir Putin's trip to Kazakhstan on Nov. 9 exuded an air of business as usual. The Russian leader was met at dawn on the tarmac of Astana airport by Kazakhstan's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about global business and investing in emerging markets. At first glance, Kazakhstan’s new financial center is an exercise ...

Serebriansky moves frequently between Kazakhstan and Poland, and the contrast between their literary infrastructures is ...