Assistant to Kazakh President – Press Secretary relieved of his duties
The Head of State relieved Ruslan Zheldibay of his duties as the Assistant to the President of Kazakhstan – Press Secretary of the President of Kazakhstan, Qazinform News Agency learnt from the Akorda.
He was born in 1989 in Zhambyl region.
He graduated from the Ryskulov Kazakh Economic University, and the University of Warwick, UK.
Zheldibay joined Kazakhstan TV channel in 2012 as an editor. In 2012 and 2018, he contributed to Almaty TV channel as a producer, and later worked on the Information and Communications Committee of the Ministry of Information and Social Development.
Between 2019 and 2020, he acted as the Deputy Chairman of the Information and Communications Committee.
In 2020, he was appointed as the deputy chief of the domestic policy sector at the President’s Executive Office.
In February 2022, he was named the deputy chief of the Kazakh Prime Minister’s Office, and in April he became the Press Secretary of the President of Kazakhstan.
In 2023, he was appointed as the Assistant to the President for domestic policy and communication.
Since last September up to present served as Assistant to the President of Kazakhstan – Press Secretary of the President of Kazakhstan.
Earlier, Svetlana Zhakupova relieved of post as Kazakhstan's labor and social protection minister.
