Word: kiriyenko
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Dates: during 1998-1998
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Speaking through a translator, Kiriyenko, a technocrat and banker whose political life began only a few years ago, remarked several times on the dirty side of running Russia...
...Kiriyenko's term as prime minister lasted from late March to late August of this year. He was replaced by the very man he ousted from office five months earlier, Viktor Chernomyrdin...
...several colorful illustrations during the evening, Kiriyenko compared Russia's reform process to "a car with manual transmission [which] has five, six drives to go forward but only one to go back." Reverse, as he saw it, was reinstating a totalitarian regime to settle Russia's economic woes, while forward gears offered many avenues of reform...
...Kiriyenko reported the results of another poll, stating, "61 percent of the populace feels it does not need the paternalistic view by their government...
Despite the current dismal economic situation in Russia, Kiriyenko said he was optimistic about his country's future...