Nursultan Nazarbayev, first president of Kazakhstan (1990–2019) and the country’s constitutionally designated Leader of the Nation. Though he rose through the ranks of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was a reformist who sought…
Nuri Aslan (born 1969) is a Turkish politician and businessman who serves as acting Mayor of Istanbul since 2025, following the arrest and suspension of Ekrem İmamoğlu.
Nation building is the process in question. This process is, as a rule, complicated in diverse countries, such as Kazakhstan. As a post-Soviet nation, it is still not sure how to define itself in the country and in the outside world.