(2001 est. pop. 16.7 million). Situated in central Asia, Kazakhstan, at 2,717,300 square kilometers, is the second largest of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the association of former Soviet states. It shares borders to the north and on...

The education system in Kazakhstan was strongly influenced by the Russian and Soviet education systems. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the czarist government attempted to Westernize the Kazakh education system by sponsoring...

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan is a landlocked country located in Central Asia that is bordered by Russia on the north, China on the east, Turkmenistan on the west, and Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan on the south. By size, it is the ninth-largest nation in the world...

The Mangyshlak Peninsula (in Kazakh: Mangghystau Tubegi), is located along the western boundary of the Republic of Kazakhstan, an internal political division of the USSR until its independence in 1991. It is part of a greater political-administrative...

Kazakhstan, also spelled Kazakstan (Kazakh: Қазақстан, Qazaqstan, IPA: [qɑzɑqˈstɑn]; Russian: Казахстан, Kazakhstán, IPA: [kazəxˈstan]), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country in Central Asia and Europe. Ranked the...

The Republic of Kazakhstan is a unitary state with the presidential form of government and a parliamentary legislative body. A former member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, Kazakhstan became independent on December 21, 1991. In 1997, its capital moved from Almaty...

Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, gave an interview to The Washington Post earlier this month in Astana, the capital. Some excerpts: On democratization of Kazakhstan: "They have been criticizing us for the entire 10 years [of independence]. It always surprised me --...

Oil-rich Kazakhstan held parliamentary elections Saturday in an early vote widely considered an attempt by the long-ruling president to improve the ex-Soviet republic's democratic image while retaining his grip on power.The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has assessed previous elections in post-Soviet Kazakhstan...

The prime minister of oil-rich Kazakhstan resigned Monday in the wake of criticism of his performance by the heavy-handed president of the Central Asian country.Daniyal Akhmetov, who served as prime minister since 2003, offered his resignation at a Cabinet meeting, thanking President Nursultan Nazarbayev for...