2021 in Kazakhstan

Incumbents Photo Post Name Chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin

Events Ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Kazakhstan

January 1 January - the chairmanship of the Eurasian Economic Union passes from Belarus to Kazakhstan. 2 January - Death Penalty officially abolished after nearly a two decade recession. 10 January - Kazakh legislative election 15 January - Askar Mamin is reappointed as Prime Minister of Kazakhstan by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Nurlan Nigmatulin is also reelected as the Chair of the Mazhilis.

February 10 February – Small protest against prosecution on Uyghurs in Mainland China which resulted to crackdown. 25 February – Murat Nurtileu is named as the new Deputy Head of Presidential Administration. 28 February – At least a dozen are arrested by the police demanding the release of all political prisoners who have been arrested and detained during the unrest in the legislative elections.

March 8 March – First Women's March held in Almaty.

April 17 April – Three crewmen from the International Space Station griping their spacejet of Soyuz MS-17 land on Kazakh Soil.

May The session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council takes place. President Tokayev signs into law a bill that bans selling and leasing agricultural land to foreigners.

December 27 November to 5 December — Kazakhstan will host the 2021 MMA World Championships and U20 Youth MMA World Championships in Nur-Sultan.

Deaths

24 January - Nikolay Chebotko, Kazakh Olympic cross country skier (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014), traffic collision. (b. 1982)Famed Kazakhstani skier Nikolay Chebotko dies in car accident 3 February – Alizhan Ibragimov, businessman and billionaire (b.1954) 9 February – Klavdiya Pishchulina, scientist. (b. 1934) Клавдия Антоновна Пищулина 16 April – Yessengaly Raushanov (b. 1957), poet

2021 in Kazakhstan

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