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)

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