biography
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Primakov, Yevgeny (Maksimovich)
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pronunciation:
[preemakof]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1929– )
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| biography:
| Russian statesman and prime minister (1998–9), born in Kiev, Ukraine. Educated in Moscow, he joined the Communist Party in 1959 and acted as Middle East correspondent for Pravda. Having been a foreign policy officer to the Central Committee and Politburo of the Communist Party, he became a key strategist in the perestroika movement. In 1990 he was appointed to the new presidential council by Gorbachev. In 1991 he took command of the foreign intelligence branch of the KGB and continued in the equivalent post as a market socialist and capitalist in post-dissolution Russia. In 1996, Yeltsin appointed him Russian foreign minister. Appointed prime minister at the urging of the Duma during a period of major economic crisis, he was viewed as a compromise candidate, and was dismissed by Yeltsin as part of the president's battle to remain in office. |
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