Yevgeny Primakov, who has died aged 85, was an outstanding foreign minister and prime minister of the Russian Federation in the 1990s. He was a bold critic of the oligarchs and their neoliberal ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, whose career included desperate but unsuccessful diplomatic efforts to avert wars in Iraq and NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia, has died. He ...

Yuri Primakov was born in 1927 and is the only son of Vitaly Markovich Primakov (1897-1937). Vitaly Primakov joined the Bolshevik Party in 1914. Still in his early twenties, he became a hero of the ...

Amidst the headlines blaring the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on gay marriage and the breaking-news coverage of the coordinated ISIS attacks on three continents, the death of Yevgeny M. Primakov ...

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Yevgeny Primakov, a former Russian prime minister, foreign minister, and spy chief known for his assertive diplomacy and a desperate attempt to avert NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, has died at ...

With the death of Yevgeny Primakov on Friday, June 26, Russia has lost an outstanding leader who helped stabilise the country during the turbulent post - Soviet decade, and India a good friend, who ...

The perception of Yevgeny Primakov, the man on his way to becoming Russia’s next prime minister, is that he is more famous abroad than at home. Short and chunky, with charm reserved for those who get ...

Yevgeny Primakov, who has died aged 85, was a former Soviet era apparatchik who served as Russian foreign minister, then prime minister, under the crisis-torn presidency of Boris Yeltsin; in 1999 he ...

There are signs that the Russia-India-China platform is becoming ‘kinetic’ after a lapse of a few years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official visit to Moscow last month placed a great store in ...