YELTSIN CROSSES PRIME MINISTER WITH APPOINTMENT TO FINANCE POST.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: May 26, 1999 | Copyright information

President Boris Yeltsin named a prominent liberal yesterday to take charge of Russia's ravaged economy, apparently turning his back on the candidate proposed by his new prime minister.

Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin immediately moved to quell speculation that he had lost his first round of Kremlin infighting. But Russian media took the appointment of Mikhail Zadornov as a slap at Stepashin.

Yeltsin, vacationing in the southern resort town of Sochi, promoted Zadornov, who had been finance minister, to the more important position of first deputy prime minister in charge of ...

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