YELTSIN FIRES PRESS SECRETARY.

President Yeltsin has dismissed his spokesman, Sergei Yastrzhembsky, and is reported to be intending to promote his adviser on foreign affairs, Sergei Prikhodko, to the post (Russian agencies, September 12). The personable Yastrzhembsky has served the president ably and his dismissal was greeted with dismay by members of the press. He may have fallen foul of Primakov in his previous incarnation as Russia’s ambassador to Slovakia.

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