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Article: Primakov quickly confirmed by Russian Duma: Prime minister urges state intervention.(A)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 12, 1998
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Russia's fractious parliament came together yesterday and confirmed Yevgeny Primakov as prime minister after he called for the state to take the lead in solving the worst economic crisis since the 1991 Soviet collapse.
While assuring lawmakers he had no intention of reviving the Soviet era's highly centralized economy, Mr. Primakov urged more state intervention in the economy and likened Russia's plight to one faced by Americans in the 1930s.
"Nobody criticized [President Franklin D.] Roosevelt when he introduced state controls over the economy after the Great Depression," Mr. Primakov said in Moscow.
After Mr. Primakov, 68, warned the ...