Dariga Nazarbayeva

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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Dariga Nazarbayeva<br>{{small|Дариға Назарбаева}}
|image = Dariga Nazarbayeva.jpg
|office = [[Prime Minister of Kazakhstan|Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan]]
|president = [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]]
|primeminister = [[Karim Massimov]]<br>[[Bakhytzhan Sagintayev]]
|term_start = 11 September 2015
|term_end = 13 September 2016
|predecessor =
|successor =
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|5|7|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Temirtau]], [[Kazakh SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
|death_date =
|death_place =
|party = [[Nur Otan]]
|otherparty = [[Asar Party]] <small>(2003-2006)</small>
|alma_mater = [[Moscow State University]]
}}
'''Dariga Nursultanqyzy Nazarbayeva''' ({{lang-kk|'''Дариға Нұрсұлтанқызы Назарбаева'''}}; {{lang-ru|'''Дарига Нурсултановна Назарбаева'''}}; born 7 May 1963) is a [[Kazakhs|Kazakh]] politician and daughter of [[President of Kazakhstan]] [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]]. She was Deputy Prime Minister from 2015 to 2016.
==Life and career==
Nazarbayeva was born at [[Temirtau]] in 1963. At one point she worked as head of the official state-run news agency, [[Khabar]]. She formed the Kazakh political party [[Asar Party|Asar]], Kazakh for "All together." Asar merged with the pro-Nazarbayev party [[Fatherland (Kazakhstan)|Otan]] in July 2006.<ref name=MERGED>[http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5487.htm Background Note: Kazakhstan] U.S. Department of State</ref>

Many analysts believe President Nazarbayev is preparing his daughter to succeed him upon his retirement or death. Her relationship with her father has deteriorated recently, in part due to the criticism of his administration she sometimes expresses.<ref>[http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/05/C68B3EB0-8C9F-4AE1-9B39-344A33610EA7.html Kazakhstan: Apparent Rift Opens Within Nazarbaev Family] RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty</ref>

Nazarbayeva had a long marriage to Kazakh businessman and politician [[Rakhat Aliyev]] until their divorce in June 2007. Aliyev claims that the divorce was executed without his consent, and that it was forced by President Nazarbayev.<ref>[http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2007/06/13/016.html Nazarbayev's Son-in-Law Is Divorced] Moscow Times, June 13, 2007</ref> Nazarbayeva has two sons with Aliyev, Nurali and Aisoultan, and a daughter Venera.<ref name=FAMILY>[http://dariga.kz/fam1.php Моя семья] СЕМЬЯ</ref> She is also a grandmother. Nurali's wife gave birth to Laura Aliyev in 2003.<ref name=LAURA>[http://www.ferghana.ru/article.php?id=2046 У старшего сына Дариги Назарбаевой Нурали родилась дочь Лаура] epraha</ref>

Nazarbayeva served as a jury member in the second season of [[SuperStar KZ]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}}. She is an avid amateur opera singer. Despite a lack of formal vocal training, she often performs opera arias at concerts and events.

On 13 May 2013, she gave a concert, co-organized by [[Count]] Pierre [[Sheremetev]], at the [[Théâtre des Champs-Élysées]] in [[Paris]], with the [[Orchestre Lamoureux]] directed by [[Dmitry Yablonsky]] and the Sazgen sazi group directed by Baghdat Tilegenov, and with some artists as the pianist Timur Urmancheev, Sundet Baigozhin or Medet Chotabaev. Among the audience were [[Alexander Konstantinovich Orlov (diplomat)|Aleksandr Orlov]], [[Ambassador of Russia to France]], other ambassadors, diplomats or investors, and French writer [[Jean-Pierre Thiollet]].

On 3 April 2014 Nazarbayeva was elected as Vice Chairman of the [[Mazhilis]]. On 11 September 2015 she was named Deputy Prime Minister.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.inform.kz/eng/article/2817022 |title=Dariga Nazarbayeva appointed Vice PM of Kazakhstan |publisher=Kazinform |date=11 September 2015 |accessdate=17 December 2015}}</ref><ref>[http://azertag.az/en/xeber/Kazakhstani_President_appoints_Dariga_Nazarbayeva_as_deputy_PM-884224 ''Kazakhstani President appoints Dariga Nazarbayeva as deputy PM'', Ilaha Ahmadova in Astana for Azertac news agency, Baku 12 September 2015].Retrieved: 12 September 2015.</ref> A year later, on 13 September 2016, she was instead appointed to the [[Senate of Kazakhstan|Senate]]; she was designated as head of the Senate's International Affairs, Defense, and Security Committee on 16 September.<ref>[http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-nazarbaeva-appointed-senate-committee-chairs/27992983.html "Kazakh president's daughter appointed head Of Senate committee"], Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 16 September 2016.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.rferl.org/features/features_Article.aspx?m=10&y=2006&id=E6D03F65-19D6-481E-8D8C-C27473F2D624 Kazakh President's Daughter Chides Steel Baron Mittal]
*[http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav103006b.shtml Kazakhstan: New Political Party Borrows From Western Right]
*[http://www.gusnews.net/2007/07/05/nasarbayev-schmiss-seine-tochter-raus/ Nazarbayev schmiss seine Tochter raus] (German) Nazarbayev boots his daughter out.

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[[Category:Children of national leaders]]

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