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Boris Heltsin wanted him to lead the Government through of August 1998 to front the serious economic crisis in which Russia was in those dramatic weeks. Hi is one of the very few Russian politicians the people widely appreciate. His destitution in May 1999 and replacement with Serjej Stepasin, in its turn replaced by Vladimir Putin in person left most people, among both the simple Russians citizens and the foreign professional economic observers, in deep astonishment. Primakov was far from being finished, anyway. In the elections held in December 1999 his own political party “Fatherland” gained a honourable third placement with a 13, 3 % of the voting share and 66 seats in the Duma. |
Evgenij Primakov |
