Nazarbayev
Proper noun
Meaning
Nazarbayev
A transliteration of the Kazakh surname Назарбаев (Nazarbaev).
Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakh president.
Examples
According to students at Nazarbayev University, the university professors handled it well and adapted quickly to the new setting.
And Russia’s current president Vladimir Putin was speaking for the whole nation when he called Nazarbayev, and not himself, the author of the project of Eurasian Economic Union and a “tireless promoter” of the idea of Eurasian integration.
And in the era of hard times that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union and the events of the 90s, Nazarbayev proved himself to be a principled and far-sighted political figure who built his own state, Kazakhstan, in difficult new new conditions.”
At the same time, the current president has acted as a consistent follower of the strategic course of the First President – the Leader of the Nation Nursultan Nazarbayev, who laid the foundations of today’s achievements of Kazakhstan.
Alternatively, some analysts have pointed to a leadership maneuver engineered by Nursultan Nazarbayev, the longtime president of Kazakhstan, another former Soviet republic.
Ambivalent about Gorbachev's removal, Nazarbayev did not condemn the coup attempt until its second day.