Kassym-jomart Tokayev

What are Kazakhstan’s newly adopted reforms?

They are meant to take the country on the path of development and progress, while the new president has already made some path-breaking decisions.

Ruling party wins landslide in Kazakhstan's parliamentary election

Nur Otan party led by powerful ex-president Nursultan Nazarbayev sweeps parliamentary election, exit poll shows, as it has done for decades, with no major opposition groups running in the vote.

Kazakhstan abolishes death penalty

Even though a moratorium on capital punishement had been in place since 2003, courts in the Central Asian country had continued to sentence convicts to death in exceptional circumstances.

Ally of Kazakhstan's longtime ex-leader wins presidency

The Central Election Commission says Kassym-Jomart Tokayev won nearly 71 percent of the vote with all the ballots counted. The results have not yet been formally confirmed.

Kazakhstan's leader steps down, or is it a step up?

Kazakhstan's leader for the past thirty years has voluntarily left the presidency, a first in the region.

President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, resigns

"I have taken the decision to refuse the mandate of the presidency," Nazarbayev said in a televised address announcing his decision to step down as Kazak president after three decades in office.