According to Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, “Astana is the personification of a new, dynamically developing Kazakhstan, a symbol of renewal, a symbol of independence’’. After becoming the capital city in 1997, Astana has changed significantly. The city with a population of 840,000 is located in the North part of the country, within the Akmola province, though it is administrated separately from the province as a federal city…