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| International Briefs: Yeltsin anounces plan to restructure government |
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Boris Yeltsin announced on Tuesday that he was dismissing the entire Russian
cabinet except for the prime minister and his first deputy. In his decree,
Yeltsin said that he accepts Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin's proposal to
restructure the government.
The reformed cabinet will have to undergo significant changes. The number of deputy prime ministers will be cut from the current figure of nine, and there will be only one first deputy prime minister, instead of four. Also, the number of ministries and ministers will be cut and reorganized. Anatoly Chubais, Yeltsin's former chief of staff, was named first deputy only last week. Chernomyrdin now has the responsibility of creating the new cabinet. This reorganization of the cabinet was one of the promises Yeltsin made to the people in his State of the Nation speech to Parliament last Thursday. Yeltsin is altering the structure of the cabinet in the name of economic growth and efficiency. Source: CNN Online, March 11 .
This item appeared in the News section of the March 14, 1997 issue. |
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