Kazakhstan calling: a jaw-dropping trip to Astana
As the country gears up for its Expo 2017, the astonishing architecture in its capital blows Sankha Guha’s mind
Nursultan Nazarbayev
Welcome to Astana, Kazakhstan: one of the strangest capital cities on Earth
The flashy buildings of Astana rise up implausibly from the flat plains of oil-rich Kazakhstan to form a city stuck between a Soviet past and an aspirational present