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15 September 1998 After Russian President Boris Yeltsin cut short a vacation and returned to Moscow on 29 July, the local press buzzed with talk of a cabinet reshuffle, to be spearheaded by the appointment of a veteran reformer as deputy prime minister in charge of economics. The talk turned out to be premature, but […]