CHUBAIS TO HEAD YELTSIN INAUGURATION TEAM.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 2 Issue: 144

President Yeltsin has assigned his new chief-of-staff, Anatoly Chubais, to organize the presidential inauguration ceremony, which is to take place in the Kremlin’s Cathedral Square on August 9. Previously, that job was handled by the former chief-of-staff, the hawkish Nikolai Yegorov. (Itar-Tass, July 23)

Russian Government Urges Iraqi Oil Purchases.