Issued to mark the tenth anniversary of Astana as Kazakhstan's capital, a status the city received in 1997 when Nursultan Nazarbayev relocated the government from Almaty — a move critics called vanity and supporters called strategic rebalancing toward the country's geographic center and the predominantly Russian-speaking north.
Issued to mark the tenth anniversary of Astana as Kazakhstan's capital, a status the city received in 1997 when Nursultan Nazarbayev relocated the government from Almaty — a move critics called vanity and supporters called strategic rebalancing toward the country's geographic center and the predominantly Russian-speaking north.