YELTSIN REPLACES CHAIRMAN OF CITIZENSHIP COMMISSION.

President Yeltsin has appointed Oleg Kutafin to replace Abdulah Mikitayev as chairman of the presidential commission for citizenship issues. (8) The sensitive post deals not only with citizenship issues inside Russia, but also with the status of ethnic Russians in the non-Russian states of the former Soviet Union. No reason was given for the change, which came amidst a sweeping reorganization of the presidential administration by Yeltsin’s new chief of staff, Nikolai Yegorov.

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