Nursultan Nazarbayev
Nursultan Ábishuly Nazarbayev is a Kazakh politician currently serving as the Chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan. He previously served as the first President of Kazakhstan, in office from 24 April 1990 until his formal resignation on 19 March 2019. He is one of the longest-ruling non-royal leaders in the world, having ruled Kazakhstan for nearly three decades. He has been accused of human rights abuses by several human rights organisations and suppressed dissent.
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Nursultan Ábishuly Nazarbayev is a Kazakh politician currently serving as the Chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan. He previously served as the first President of Kazakhstan, in office from 24 April 1990 until his formal resignation on 19 March 2019. He is one of the longest-ruling non-royal leaders in the world, having ruled Kazakhstan for nearly three decades. He has been accused of human rights abuses by several human rights organisations and suppressed dissent and presided over an authoritarian regime. According to independent observers, from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, no election held in Kazakhstan since independence has been free and fair by international standards. In April 2015, he was re-elected with almost 98% of the vote, as he ran virtually unopposed. In March 2019, he unexpectedly resigned from presidency due to public pressure. However he still maintains the title as \”Elbasy\” where he is immune from any criminal prosecution and currently serves as the chairman of Security Council, ruling party Nur Otan, and Assembly of People of Kazakhs. He was born in Chemolgan, a rural town near Almaty, when Kazakhstan was one of the republics of the Soviet Union. His father was a poor labourer who worked for a wealthy local family until Soviet rule confiscated the family’s farmland in the 1930s during Joseph Stalin’s collectivization policy. Following this, his father took the family to the mountains to live out a nomadic existence.
In 1984, he became the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, under Dinmukhamed Kunayev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakh SSR. On 22 June 1989, only the second Kazakh leader to hold the post of Supreme Supreme Court. In 1986 he was ousted by a Russian, Gennady Kolbin, who replaced him as Prime Minister. He later wrote that the central allocation of capital investment and the distribution of funds meant that infrastructure was poor, workers were demoralised and overworked, and centrally set targets were unrealistic; he saw the steel plant’s problems as a microcosm for the problems for the Soviet Soviet Union as a whole. In January 2017, he proposed constitutional reforms that would delegate powers to the Parliament of Kazakhstan and he is also a member of the Constitutional Council, and an honorary member of the Senate of Kazakhstan and the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences. In November 2013, he announced reforms to encourage a multi-party system, including the creation of the National Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NCR). In January 2014, he announced reforms to encourage multi-party systems, including the creation of a National Council of Parliamentary Parliaments (NCP). In November 2014 he re-elected as president with 98% of the vote. He was named First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan in 1989 and was elected as the nation’s first president following its independence.
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