YELTSIN APPOINTS LIVSHITS TO PRESIDENTIAL STAFF.

President Boris Yeltsin has appointed Aleksandr Livshits to the post of deputy head of the presidential administration. (Itar-Tass, March 19) Earlier this week, Livshits lost his job as deputy prime minister and finance minister, the latter post going to Anatoly Chubais. Livshits had been finance minister since last year but had failed to reverse the government’s abysmal failure to collect taxes.

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