27 Facts About Dariga Nazarbayeva

Dariga Nursultanqyzy Nazarbayeva is a Kazakh businesswoman and politician who is the daughter of Nursultan Nazarbayev who was the President of Kazakhstan from 1990 to 2019.

Dariga Nazarbayeva was a member of the Majilis from 2004 to 2007,2012 to 2015 and 2021 to 2022.

Dariga Nazarbayeva was Deputy Chairwoman of Majilis from 2014 to 2015 until being appointed as a Deputy Prime Minister under Massimov's cabinet.

Dariga Nazarbayeva was a member of the Kazakh Senate from 2016 to 2020, serving as Senate Chairwoman from 2019 to 2020.

Dariga Nazarbayeva is one of the richest women in Kazakhstan.

In 2003, she founded the Asar party and the following year later in 2004 for the first time, Dariga Nazarbayeva was elected to the Majilis.

In 2015, Dariga Nazarbayeva was appointed by her father as Deputy Prime Minister under PM Karim Massimov before then returning to the Parliament in 2016 as a Senator.

Dariga Nazarbayeva graduated from the S M Kirov Kazakh State University in 1985, and in 1991, defending her thesis for a candidate degree in historical sciences at the Moscow State University.

Dariga Nazarbayeva became the vice president of her mother Sara Dariga Nazarbayeva's Bobek Children's Charity Fund.

In 1994, Dariga Nazarbayeva became the vice president of the Television and Radio of Kazakhstan Republican Corporation.

In 1998, Khabar was transformed into a closed joint-stock company, and Dariga Nazarbayeva became President of the Company, and in 2001, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors.

Since the late 1990s, Dariga Nazarbayeva has regularly appeared on Kazakh TV as a singer.

Dariga Nazarbayeva's repertoire includes Kazakh folk songs, Russian romances, opera arias and songs by Joe Dassin.

In October 2002, Dariga Nazarbayeva became the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Choice of the Young People block; it was proposed to create the Congress of Youth of Kazakhstan at the first conference of the block.

In October 2003, Dariga Nazarbayeva organized and became the leader of the Asar Republican Party.

On 4 July 2006, an extraordinary party convention was held where they decided to merge with the Otan Republican Political Party, with Dariga Nazarbayeva being elected as the deputy chairwoman of Amanat under her father's chairmanship.

Dariga Nazarbayeva remained as a member of the Majilis until its dissolution on 20 June 2007.

On 3 April 2014, Dariga Nazarbayeva was unanimously chosen as a Majilis deputy chairwoman and the parliamentary leader of Amanat.

Dariga Nazarbayeva reappeared on the Amanat party-list at a congress on 25 November 2020 where she made her first public appearance since being dismissed from the Senate Chairwoman post, bringing her candidacy to the Majilis seat again.

On 13 September 2016, Dariga Nazarbayeva was appointed to the Senate; she was designated as the head of the Senate's International Affairs, Defense, and Security Committee on 16 September.

Dariga Nazarbayeva succeeded Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in that role, who became the acting president of the country.

Several speculations arose that Dariga Nazarbayeva was preparing her presidential bid for the 2019 presidential elections in which the allegations were revealed to be false according to her close aide on 9 April 2019.

Dariga Nazarbayeva had a long marriage to Kazakh businessman and politician Rakhat Aliyev until their divorce in June 2007.

Dariga Nazarbayeva was stripped of his titles in 2007 after critiquing President Nazarbayev for altering the nation's constitution to allow him to be president for life.

Dariga Nazarbayeva has two sons with Aliyev, Nurali and Aisultan, and a daughter Venera.

Dariga Nazarbayeva made no responses regarding the case made by her son.

In 2018, it was revealed by the Panama Papers that Dariga Nazarbayeva was the sole shareholder of an off-shore sugar company based in the British Virgin Islands which did business in Kazakhstan.