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Nursultan Nazarbayev

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President of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019

PoliticiansBorn 1940 · age 86also Russiaalso Kazakhstan
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He ruled Kazakhstan for twenty-eight years, from its Soviet breakup through uninterrupted re-elections no opposition could contest. The power finally cracked in 2022 when unrest forced a constitutional purge that stripped the titles and erased the cult.

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Nursultan Nazarbayev
said · May 1994
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All of northern and northeastern Kazakhstan is actually part of southern Siberia.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Interview With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on the New Russia and Ukraine (May 1994), by Paul Klebnikov, in the (9 May

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Nursultan Nazarbayev
said · 2014
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I have always been and remain a sincere supporter of the well-known formula - "Economy first, then politics".

"Speech At Moscow State University" (2014)

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Nursultan Nazarbayev
said · 2019
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The systemic transformation of the current world is a strategic challenge for our people. We must be ready to accept them.

"Speech at the international scientific and practical conference "30 years of leadership" (2019)

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Awards 40

2019Friendship Medal
2019Supreme Order of Turkic World
2017Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic‎
2015Order of Alexander Nevsky
2015Order of the Friendship of Peoples
2010Order of Liberty
2009Grand Order of Mugunghwa
2009Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
2007Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross‎
2002Order of the White Eagle (Third Polish Republic)
2002honorary doctor of the Peking University
1998Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called
1997Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
1997Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class
1997Gold Olympic Order
1972Order of the Red Banner of Labour
1972Order of the Badge of Honour
1970Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Hero of the Kazakhstan
Order of Fatherland
Order of the Golden Eagle
Medal "10 Years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
Medal commemorating 10 years of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Medal for 100 years of Kazakhstan Railways
medal commemorating 50 years of the Virgin Lands
Astana Medal
Medal "10 years of Astana"
medal "for 20 years of Kazakhstan's independence"
Medal for the 20th anniversary of the Constitution of Kazakhstan
Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan"
Order of Akhmad Kadyrov
Order of Outstanding Merit
Collar of the Order of the Star of Romania
Grand Star of the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
Order of Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy 1st Class
Grand Cross with collar of the Order of Vytautas the Great
Order of Ismoili Somoni

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About this person

Nursultan Nazarbayev joined the Communist Party in 1962 as a steel worker, climbed to First Secretary by 1989, and was elected president of the Kazakh SSR in 1990. He steered the republic through Soviet collapse to independence in 1991, then appeared alone on the ballot and won. A 1995 referendum extended his term by decree; a 1999 election followed without democratic process. A Supreme Court ruling in 2005 let him run again, and a 2007 amendment exempted him alone from term limits, clearing the way for re-elections in 2011 and 2015. He resigned in March 2019 amid protests, handing power to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev but keeping the Security Council chair and party leadership. The 2022 unrest broke that grip: a referendum stripped his special titles, Senate seat, and Constitutional Council membership. By 2023 the official posts were gone, and so was the dominance.

Category
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Status
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Dates
Born 1940 · age 86
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