{"id":48473,"date":"2022-09-14T09:14:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T00:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/14\/kazakhstan-to-change-name-of-capital-from-nur-sultan-back-to-astana"},"modified":"2022-09-14T09:14:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T00:14:26","slug":"kazakhstan-to-change-name-of-capital-from-nur-sultan-back-to-astana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48473","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan to change name of capital from Nur-sultan back to Astana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The capital of the central Asian country was renamed Nur-sultan in 2019 in honour of outgoing president Nursultan Nazarbayev<\/p>\n<p>Kazakh president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has agreed to restore the former name of the country\u2019s capital just three years after he renamed it in honour of his predecessor, his spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Tokayev\u2019s spokesman, Ruslan Zheliban, said the president agreed to the name change after an initiative by a group of MPs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/14\/kazakhstan-to-change-name-of-capital-from-nur-sultan-back-to-astana\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The capital of the central Asian country was renamed Nur-sultan in 2019 in honour of outgoing president Nursultan NazarbayevKazakh president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has agreed to restore the former name of the country\u2019s capital just three years after he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[262,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kazakhstan","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48474,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48473\/revisions\/48474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}