Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev relieved Marat Tazhin off his duties as Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation and appointed him as first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan, president's press office said.
Earlier, first deputy head of Presidential Administration Baglan Mailybaev was dismissed by a decree of Nazarbayev.
Tazhin has held the post of Kazakh ambassador to Russia from February 2014.
