Tokayev appoints new ambassador to Russia
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Dauren Abayev, former Deputy Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and ex-Minister of Culture, has been appointed by Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as the republic’s new ambassador to Russia. This was reported by the press service of the President.
The decree of the head of state says: “Abayev Dauren Askerbekovich has been appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation.”
On June 16, Tokayev dismissed Yermek Kosherbayev from the post of Kazakhstan’s ambassador to Russia and appointed him head of the administration of the East Kazakhstan region.
Earlier, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, as announced the day before, spent an extraordinary meeting of the Security Council of the republic in connection with the situation in Russia. At the meeting, the President of Kazakhstan heard reports from the Prime Minister, the Prosecutor General, the Chairman of the National Security Committee, as well as the heads of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Foreign Ministry on measures to fulfill instructions in connection with the situation in the Russian Federation.
Dauren Abaev was born in 1979. In recent years, he has served as Minister of Information and Social Development, as well as First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan. He was also a press secretary and adviser to the first president of the republic, Nursultan Nazarbayev, from 2011 to 2016. In January 2022, he became the Minister of Culture and Sports of the Republic, and in March of the same year he was appointed to the post of Deputy Secretary General of the CIS.
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