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Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev agrees to change the name of Kazakhstan's capital from "Nur-Sultan" back to "Astana". He had previously changed the capital's name in 2019 to honor his predecessor Nursultan Nazarbayev.
2022-09-13

Kazakhstan signs an agreement to purchase four million doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine which will be delivered in the fourth quarter of this year.
2021-10-6

Kazakhstan reports a record 7,792 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 610,744
2021-08-5

Legislative elections are held in Kazakhstan. The election is criticized for a lack of opposition to the leading party Nur Otan and is therefore expected to be considered neither free nor fair by international observers.
2021-01-10

Soyuz MS-11 returned to Earth, landing in Kazakhstan, from the International Space Station carrying Canadian David Saint-Jacques, American Anne McClain and Russian Oleg Kononenko. The astronauts and cosmonaut spent 204 days aboard the ISS, a record for Canada.
2019-06-24

Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, is renamed Nursultan, after the former President.
2019-03-20

Soyuz MS-10, carrying a cosmonaut and an astronaut to the International Space Station, is forced to make an emergency landing in Kazakhstan after a failure with its Soyuz-FG rocket.
2018-10-11

A bus carrying Uzbek migrant workers catches fire in Kazakhstan's Aktobe Region, killing 52 people. Five people escape and are treated by rescue workers.
2018-01-18

Iran indicates the possibility it will attend talks on its nuclear program in Kazakhstan if it believes intentions behind them are "authentic".
2013-02-3

Unrest in Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan, spreads as a train is burnt; one person is shot dead and 11 injured.
2011-12-18