YELTSIN MAY SACK MAVERICK GOVERNOR.

Yevgeny Sevastyanov, aide to the Russian president, said yesterday that President Yeltsin will decide whether or not to sack the governor of Primorsky krai, Yevgeny Nazdratenko, after he receives a report from First Deputy Premier Boris Nemtsov. Nemtsov is expected in the krai today, on his way back to Moscow from a visit to Japan. (RTR, June 10) Meanwhile. the Kremlin is gathering incriminating evidence against Nazdratenko. Yesterday, President Yeltsin’s newly appointed representative in the krai, Lt. Gen. Viktor Kondratov, showed journalists a stack of documents which, he said, detailed the dirty tricks Nazdratenko used to discredit his rival, the mayor of Vladivostok, Viktor Cherepkov. Kondratov knows where the skeletons are buried: he combines his responsibilities as Yeltsin’s eyes and ears in the krai with the post of head of the regional office of the Federal Security Service. (RTR, June 10)

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