by Victor Gomez Kazakhstan Moving the Capital When Kazakhstan! President Nursultan Nazarbaev decreed that the country’s capital be moved from the southeastern city of Almaty to the more central industrial city of Akmola, it was argued that the latter is better-located, less polluted, more accessible, and ideally suited for future expansion. Almaty was less appropriate […]

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