Toqayev Replaced Ambassador to Ukraine
Photo: Embassy of Kazakhstan in Ukraine
Tolejan Barlybaev has been appointed Kazakhstan’s new ambassador to Ukraine, replacing Darkhan Kaletayev, Orda.kz reports, citing Aqorda.
The change was announced on April 17.
President Qasym-Jomart Toqayev relieved Darkhan Kaletayev of his duties. Kaletayev, a former minister and member of parliament, had served as ambassador to Ukraine since February 2020.
His successor, Tolejan Barlybaev, is a career diplomat. Until November 2024, he was Kazakhstan’s ambassador to Slovakia. Before that, he led diplomatic missions in Croatia and concurrently in Montenegro, Bosnia, and Herzegovina.
Speculation about Kaletayev’s departure had surfaced in September 2023 but was later denied. At the time, he told an Orda.kz journalist in a brief message:
I’m in Kyiv. Still the ambassador.
Just over a week ago, Ukraine appointed a new envoy to Kazakhstan — Viktor Maiko.
The position had been vacant since 2022.
Original Author: Igor Ulitin
Latest news
- Endangered Leopard Seen Again In Ustyurt
- Are Kazakhstan’s Ruling Party And Newest Party About To Merge?
- Where Will Astana’s Second Airport Be Built?
- Gibbons And Ring-Tailed Lemurs Born At Almaty Zoo
- Another Group Of Rare Wild Horses Arrives In Kazakhstan
- Heirs Of The Horde? Kazakhstan Reconsiders Its Official History
- Kazakhstan Wants AI To Help Assign Conscripts To Military Units
- Kazakhstan’s Labor Market Will Need More Than A Million Workers
- Belarusian Citizen Extradited From Kazakhstan After Alleging Abuse In Detention
- Illegal Database With Millions Of Kazakhstanis’ Data Found In Zhetysu Region
- Astana LRT Could Get A New Name
- Tokayev Sets Rules For Kazakhstan’s New Political System
- Kazakhstan Looks To Hong Kong To Open New Farm Export Routes
- Kazakhstan Simplifies Social Payment Rules
- Record Gold Reserves And Slower Inflation: What The National Bank Reported To Tokayev
- Gazprom To Increase Gas Supplies To Kazakhstan In 2026
- Gasoline Worth 37 Billion Tenge: Kazakhstan Uncovers Fuel Export Scheme To Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan To Change Rules For Using State Symbols
- Cyprus Visit To Kazakhstan Sparks Dispute In Greek And Turkish Media
- Business Subsidies To Be Reviewed Once Every Three Years
