Events in the year 2018 in Kazakhstan.
Incumbents President: Nursultan Nazarbayev Prime Minister: Bakhytzhan Sagintayev
Events
January 18 January – A bus fire on the Samara–Shymkent road kills 52 passengers, with five people escaping.
February 9 – 25 February – Kazakhstan participated in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, with 46 competitors in 9 sports.
March 9 – 18 March – Kazakhstan participated in the 2018 Winter Paralympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. 15 March – A summit of Central Asian leaders takes place in Astana.
October 11 October – The flight of the Soyuz MS-10 rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station is aborted during launch following the failure of the booster rocket. The two-man crew lands safely near Jezkazgan.Astronauts survive Soyuz rocket emergency landing CNN, 2018-10-11.
Deaths
17 February – , writer and playwright (b. 1956).
19 July – Denis Ten, figure skater, Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1993).
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