Yevgeny Primakov, who has died aged 85, was an outstanding foreign minister and prime minister of the Russian Federation in the 1990s. He was a bold critic of the oligarchs and their neoliberal ...

MOSCOW — Former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, whose career included desperate but unsuccessful diplomatic efforts to avert wars in Iraq and NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia, has died. He was 85 ...

Yuri Primakov was born in 1927 and is the only son of Vitaly Markovich Primakov (1897-1937). Vitaly Primakov joined the Bolshevik Party in 1914. Still in his early twenties, he became a hero of the ...

Amidst the headlines blaring the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on gay marriage and the breaking-news coverage of the coordinated ISIS attacks on three continents, the death of Yevgeny M. Primakov ...

The perception of Yevgeny Primakov, the man on his way to becoming Russia’s next prime minister, is that he is more famous abroad than at home. Short and chunky, with charm reserved for those who get ...

With the death of Yevgeny Primakov on Friday, June 26, Russia has lost an outstanding leader who helped stabilise the country during the turbulent post - Soviet decade, and India a good friend, who ...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov expressed hope that "the signals coming from the Primakov Readings participants will be taken into account" MOSCOW, June 18. /TASS/. The Primakov ...

When Russian president Boris Yeltsin appointed Yevgeny Primakov prime minister last September, he was widely seen as a transitional figure. Since then, he has become more popular--and powerful; his ...

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MOSCOW — Former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, whose career included desperate but unsuccessful diplomatic efforts to avert wars in Iraq and NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia, has died. He was 85 ...