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Kazakhstan's new capital
How Kazakhstan's former president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, created a new capital - which would eventually be named after him.
In the 1990s, newly independent Kazakhstan created a new capital. It was a vast project and the man behind it was Nursultan Nazarbayev - Kazakhstan's strongman president who stayed in power for 30 years. Not surprisingly perhaps this new capital would eventually be named after him.
Picture: Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, now Nur-Sultan (credit: Shutterstock)
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