2021 in Kazakhstan

Incumbents

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)
• 3 February – Alizhan Ibragimov, businessman and billionaire (b.1954)
• 9 February – Klavdiya Pishchulina, scientist. (b. 1934)
• 16 April – Yessengaly Raushanov (b. 1957), poet

See also

• Outline of Kazakhstan
• List of Kazakhstan-related topics
• History of Kazakhstan
• List of Kazakhs
• List of Kazakh khans

References

Notes

Citations

Further reading

External links

• Kazakhstan Country Profile; CIA World Fact Book
• Kazakhstan; United Nations Statistics Division