If a nation does not know its history, if the country loses its history, then its citizens have nowhere to go.
Mirzhakyp Dulatuly

Today in history

In 1990 N. Nazarbayev was elected as the President of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic

Today is the birthday of Halel Dosmukhamedov

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The second nationwide presidential elections were taking place in Kazakhstan in 1999.

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The second nationwide presidential elections were taking place in Kazakhstan in 1999. - e-history.kz
The second (extraordinary) nationwide elections of the President of Kazakhstan were taking place on January 10, 1999. The incumbent president Nursultan Nazarbayev won the elections with 79.78% of the votes and remained in the office for the next 7 years. The only opposition candidate Serikbolsyn Abdildin (Communist Party of Kazakhstan) received 11.7% of the votes.