Nursultan Nazarbaev

Nursultan Nazarbayev Нурсултан Назарбаев
Нұрсұлтан Назарбаев
1st President of Kazakhstan
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 December 1991
Prime Minister	Sergey Tereshchenko Akezhan Kazhegeldin Nurlan Balgimbayev Kassym-Jomart Tokayev Imangali Tasmagambetov Daniyal Akhmetov Karim Massimov Serik Akhmetov Karim Massimov Bakhytzhan Sagintayev
Preceded by	Position established
2nd Chairman of Nur Otan
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 July 2007
Preceded by	Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
In office 22 February 1990 – 24 April 1990
Prime Minister	Uzakbay Karamanov
Preceded by	Kilibay Medeubekov
Succeeded by	Yerik Asanbayev
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakh SSR
In office 22 June 1989 – 14 December 1991
Preceded by	Gennady Kolbin
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Prime Minister of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
In office 22 March 1984 – 27 July 1989
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet	Bayken Ashimov Salamay Mukashev Zakash Kamaledinov Vera Sidorova Makhtay Sagdiyev
Preceded by	Bayken Ashimov
Succeeded by	Uzakbay Karamanov
Full member of the 28th Politburo
In office 14 July 1990 – 29 August 1991
Personal details
Born	Nursultan Äbishuly Nazarbayev (1940-07-06) 6 July 1940 (age 76) Chemolgan, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (now Ushkonyr, Kazakhstan)
Political party	Communist Party (1962–1991) Independent (1991–1999) Nur Otan (1999–present)
Spouse(s)	Sara Alpysqyzy Nazarbayeva (1962–present)
Children	Dariga Dinara Aliya
Religion	Sunni Islam
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Nursultan Äbishuly Nazarbayev (Kazakh: Нұрсұлтан Әбішұлы Назарбаев, Nursultan Äbişulı Nazarbayev [nʊrsʊlˈtɑn æbəʃʊˈlə nɑzɑrˈbɑ.jɪf]; Russian: Нурсултан Абишевич Назарбаев, Nursultan Abishevich Nazarbayev [nʊrsʊlˈtan ɐˈbʲiʂɨvʲɪtɕ nəzɐrˈbajɪf]; born 6 July 1940) is the President of Kazakhstan. He has been the country's leader since 1989, when he was named First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR, and was elected the nation's first president following its independence from the Soviet Union in December 1991. He holds the title 'Leader of the Nation'. In April 2015, Nazarbayev was re-elected with almost 98% of the vote.

Nazarbayev has suppressed dissent, been accused of human rights abuses by several human rights organizations, and presided over an authoritarian regime. No election held in Kazakhstan since independence has met international standards. In 2010 he announced reforms to encourage a multi-party system.

Nazarbayev 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.

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