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Nevertheless, when he fired Primakov in April 1999, Yeltsin chose another loyal security service veteran, Sergey Stepashin, to succeed him.

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As prime minister, Primakov had proposed exactly this.

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Nikolay Bordyuzha, the head of the border guards, Primakov, and then Stepashin were all considered and rejected.

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It is likely that by June 2000 even a young reformer like Nemtsov, if endorsed and supported by the Kremlin, could have beaten Luzhkov or Primakov.

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Primakov was just as ambivalent about press freedom and more hostile towards free markets.

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To Berezovsky and other members of the Family, a Primakov or Luzhkov presidency was an alarming prospect.

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He was part of the closest and best-trusted consultants of Brezhnev and Andropov, Primakov said.

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"He belonged to a group of reformers who believed that the Soviet system could be and had to be reformed," Yevgeny Primakov, who served as Russian prime minister under Boris N. Yeltsin, told state news channel Rossiya-24.

Georgy Arbatov, foreign policy adviser to Soviet presidents, dies at 87 Post 2010

Yevgeny Primakov , a former prime minister and prominent expert on the region, told state television Tuesday that "these are purely internal events."

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Primakov called for constitutional changes to “reestablish a rigid vertical power structure” before Putin even thought of the phrase.

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