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Kazakhstan President Tokayev Appoints New Vice President and Prime Minister

Erlan Karin named Vice President, Olzhas Bektenov nominated for Prime Minister role.

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Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

What this story says

  • Erlan Karin has been appointed Vice President of Kazakhstan.
  • Olzhas Bektenov has been nominated for the position of Prime Minister.
  • The Kurultai supported Bektenov's nomination with 137 votes in favour.
  • Karin previously held the role of first deputy head of the presidential administration.

Who covered it

Left 13%(1)Centre 12%(1)Right 75%(6)

Percentages are shares of the 8 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 4 of the 12 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

42/100

Craft

57/100

Hype

20/100

12 sources · methodology

Thin on the left so far

Only 1 of the 8 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has appointed Erlan Karin as Vice President and nominated Olzhas Bektenov to serve as Prime Minister. Karin had previously been the first deputy head of the presidential administration. The Kurultai, Kazakhstan's parliament, supported Bektenov's nomination with 137 votes in favour, 7 abstentions, and 144 non-voting members.

Kurultai vote on Prime Minister nomination

Reports differ on the exact number of non-voting members present during the Kurultai's vote on Olzhas Bektenov's nomination for Prime Minister. Interfax.ru stated there were 144 non-voting members. Belta.by reported that 141 deputies supported Erlan Karin's appointment as Vice-President, but did not specify the number of non-voting members for Bektenov's nomination.

What the coverage left out

None of the left or centre-rated reports mention the specific vote count for Olzhas Bektenov's nomination by the Kurultai, which was detailed in the right-rated reports from Interfax.ru and The Astana Times.

Tags:#Kazakhstan#Politics#GovernmentAppointments#ErlanKarin#OlzhasBektenov

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 3 times, most recently on 31 Aug 2026, 08:45, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

1 rated outlet

  • The left-rated report from CGTN led with President Tokayev proposing Olzhas Bektenov as Prime Minister. It stated that Erlan Karin was appointed Vice President. The report mentioned Karin's previous role as first deputy head of the presidential administration.

Centre

1 rated outlet

  • The centre-rated report from WTVB highlighted President Tokayev's appointment of Erlan Karin as Vice President. It noted that Karin is a longtime adviser and that the Vice President role was created under a new constitution. The report also mentioned that the office is for Central Asia's largest economy.

Right

6 rated outlets

  • Six right-rated reports focused on the appointments made by President Tokayev. News-pravda.com, The Astana Times, EADaily, The Straits Times, and Interfax.ru all reported on Erlan Karin's appointment as Vice President and Olzhas Bektenov's nomination as Prime Minister. News-pravda.com noted Karin's prior service as first deputy head of the presidential administration and state counsellor. The Astana Times stated Karin was elected Vice President and Bektenov was backed to remain Prime Minister by the Kurultai. Interfax.ru detailed the Kurultai's vote, stating 137 supported Bektenov's nomination, with 7 abstentions and 144 non-voting members. Vz.ru reported Tokayev nominated Bektenov for Head of Government after consultations with parliamentary factions.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Kazakhstan President Tokayev Appoints New Vice President and Prime…?
Of the 8 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 13% are rated left, 12% are rated centre, 75% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 12. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Kazakhstan President Tokayev Appoints New Vice President and Prime… left or right?
Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 8 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
Is the coverage of Kazakhstan President Tokayev Appoints New Vice President and Prime… biased?
Kazakhstan President Tokayev Appoints New Vice President and Prime Minister is one event reported by 12 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Kazakhstan President Tokayev Appoints New Vice President and Prime…?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Kazakhstan President Tokayev Appoints New Vice President and Prime…?
12 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
Who was appointed Vice President of Kazakhstan?
Erlan Karin was appointed as the Vice President of Kazakhstan. He previously served as the first deputy head of the presidential administration.
Who was nominated for Prime Minister of Kazakhstan?
Olzhas Bektenov was nominated for the position of Prime Minister of Kazakhstan. His nomination received support from the Kurultai.
What was the outcome of the Kurultai vote for Prime Minister?
The Kurultai supported the nomination of Olzhas Bektenov for Prime Minister with 137 votes in favour, 7 abstentions, and 144 non-voting members.

Read it at the source

12 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

1

Centre

1

Right

6

Not rated

4

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