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 | | The six new deputy prime ministers named in March were Yakov Urinson (also economics minister), Alfred Kokh (also head of the State Committee), Oleg Sysuev (housing and utility reform), Vladimir Bulgak (science and technology), Valery Serov (national and regional policy, CIS), and Anatoly Kulikov (law enforcement). |
 | | Victims of the shake-up included first deputy prime ministers Oleg Davydov, Aleksandr Zaveryukha, Vitaly Ignatenko, Oleg Lobov, and Aleksandr Livshits, though Livshits has rejoined the presidential administration, this time as deputy chief of staff for economic issues. |
 | | Former nationalist lawmaker Oleg Rumyantsev said that the union agreement was “justified, given the unpardonable expansion of NATO.” Yeltsin said that the union is “in complete concordance with the Russian and Belarusian Constitutions.” |
| www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol6num2/constitutionwatch/russia.html (3586 words) |
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