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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

05 April 2009 Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will launch non-stop flights on Thursday 7 May to Astana in Kazakhstan from its Abu Dhabi home base. The Kazakhstan ...