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Astana, [a] formerly known as Nur-Sultan, Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, and Akmola, [15] is the capital and second-largest city of Kazakhstan with a population of 1,350,228 within the city limits after Almaty, which had been the capital until 1997. [16]
The United States formally recognized the independence of Kazakhstan on 25 December, 1991, which was the same day the President George H.W. Bush addressed the nation on the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
History of Astana; S. 2017 SCO summit This page was last edited on 19 September 2022, at 07:02 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
John Kerry and Karim Massimov in Astana on 1 November 2015. United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Kazakhstan on 12–13 October 2005. Secretary Rice met with Nazarbayev, opposition Chairman Zharmakhan Tuyakbay, and opposition leader Alikhan Baimenov in Astana. Nazarbayev told the press that he and Rice "noted with ...
The current emblem is based on the one adopted in 1998 along with the city flag, at the 16th session of the Astana City Mäslihat in 1998. [1] In 2019 the city was renamed from Astana to Nur-Sultan. As the city name features on both the emblem and city flag, both insignia were updated to the new name in 2019.
The relocation of Kazakhstan’s capital from Almaty to Akmola marked the third capital relocation in Kazakhstan’s history and the first in independent Kazakhstan. It was also the only capital relocation in the post-Soviet space, significantly impacting the country’s economic and demographic landscape.
In 2010, an OSCE Summit was held in the Palace of Independence. The meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, as well as anniversary summits of SCO and OIC, have taken place in the palace. The most significant event in the history of the palace was a 2019 meeting of speakers of the parliaments of the Eurasian countries. [4]
The center contains a museum of Kazakh history, a gallery of Kazakh artists, a national archive, an educational facility and a library service. Founded in 2012, the center is located in Astana, Kazakhstan .