Nazarbayev offers Massimov as new Prime-Minister of KazakhstanNursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan has offered Karim Massimov as the new Prime-Minister of Kazakhstan hour after the Kazakhstan Government and Prime-Minster Serik Akhmetov resigned.
Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev relieves PM MassimovNursultan Nazarbayev is expected to ask Prime Minister Karim Massimov to head his powerful presidential administration amid ongoing jostling to succeed the veteran strongman.
2013 budget cuts are likely: MassimovPrime-Minister Karim Massimov told the Parliament that Nursultan Nazarbayev had instructed to consider "a negative scenario for 2012".