The modestly named Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan’s new flagship education facility, has officially opened in Astana. President Nursultan Nazarbayev presided over the June 28 opening ceremony of the state-of-the-art campus on the outskirts of Kazakhstan’s rapidly developing capital.
“Young people should strive to enter this place. I agreed that the university would be named after me so that no-one would let me down,” said Nazarbayev addressing the university’s first matriculating class…