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TIME: What about President Yeltsin...
Zhirinovsky: No, he actually prevented it. He realized that when Chernomyrdin left, he would be next. Yeltsin knows that Russia is now at a dead end, so they decided to oust...
...part of the continuing fallout from the Oct. 11 crash of the ruble, Russian President Boris Yeltsin shuffled his economic team, appointing as Finance Minister Vladimir Panskov, a Soviet-era budget specialist who had been briefly imprisoned on bribery charges that were later dropped. Alexander Shokhin, Economics Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, resigned, saying, "The economy is becoming a hostage to politics." Yeltsin then promoted reformer Anatoli Chubais to first Deputy Prime Minister, charged with overseeing the ministries of Economics and Finance...
...finger-pointing and raft of rumors that have plagued Russian President Boris Yeltsin's government since "Black Tuesday," theOct. 11 ruble crash, intensified today as two top ministers left office. Yeltsin fired a senior Russian defense official, received the resignation of a leading economic reform advocate and appointed his third finance minister in four weeks. Preceding today's hat trick by three days, the Russian leader dismissed his first deputy defense minister, a general accused of corruption. The government said little about the impact of the tumult on continued economic reform, but the official who resigned today -- economics minister Alexander...
...following day, after the central bank intervened, the ruble rebounded, and by week's end had climbed back to 2,988 to the dollar. To some extent the panic-fueled plunge reflected the gap between the Yeltsin government's promise of radical economic reform and its performance, as well as its persistence in printing rubles to subsidize ailing state industries and farms...