<span style="color: #222222;">Kazakhstan's parliament today voted to rename the country's capital Astana as Nursultan in honour of longtime ruler Nursultan Nazarbayev, a day after he resigned as president.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The state-owned Kazinform news agency said after a parliamentary vote Astana is now officially renamed Nursultan. Kazakhstan's new interim president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed renaming the capital.</span><br />'' <br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;"> Astana replaced Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty as the capital in 1997. </span><br />