ALMATY (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 19th September, 2022) The presidential decree on renaming the capital of the country from Nur-Sultan to Astana was published on Monday in the Kazakhstanskaya Pravda newspaper and entered into force.
On Saturday, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a law on constitutional amendments, including the introduction of a seven-year presidency term and renaming the capital Nur-Sultan back to Astana. The text of the decree stated that it would come into force from the day of its first official publication.
In addition, the newspaper published a law on amendments and additions to the constitution that also came into force from the day of the first official publication.
Astana was renamed into Nur-Sultan in March 2019 to honor Kazakhstan's first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who was finishing his almost 30-year tenure at the time.
