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Yevgeny Primakov's Cabinet



Yevgeny Primakov's Cabinet (September 111998, - May 121999) was the seventh cabinet of government of the Russian Federation, preceded by Sergei Kiriyenko's Cabinet fallen as a result of the Russian financial crisis and followed by Sergei Stepashin's Cabinet. It was led by Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, proposed by President Boris Yeltsin on September 101998, as Viktor Chernomyrdin had failed to be approved by the State Duma twice by September 7 (August 31: 94 in favor, 252 against, nobody abstained, September 7: 138 in favor, 273 against, 1 abstained) According to the Constitution of Russia], if parliament rejects the president's nomination three times, then parliament must be dissolved and a general election held.



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