ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's longest serving prime minister, Karim Masimov, has resigned, the country's presidential press service announced on Monday.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev had accepted Masimov's resignation, a presidential decree published on the press service's web site, www.akorda.kz, showed.
Masimov had been prime minister of Central Asia's largest economy since January 2007.
(Reporting by Mariya Gordeyeva; Writing by Robin Paxton)
