...measures, especially improved tax enforcement. In a joint statement sent to the IMF on Monday, Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko and Central Bank Chairman Sergei Dubinin said they had acted to increase revenue and cap the budget deficit, the...

...60 percent since the beginning of the year, and buy some time for the months-old government of Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko. But Russian stocks dropped sharply again Monday. The Russian Trading System Index sank 9 percent to close at 120...

...for an ill-timed summit. Russia has been without a government since Aug. 23, when Yeltsin fired Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko in the midst of an economic crisis that has crippled the ruble and stocks, threatened to bring down the country's...

...largest faction. "We must either change it or the end is very close." In an address to lawmakers, Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko laid out the economy's troubles in stark terms: Gross domestic product has declined 0.2 percent in the first...

...distribution of Russia's vast natural gas supplies, and is one of Western Europe's largest suppliers. Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko threatened to seize the company's assets and reassert control over its board unless the natural gas monopoly starts...

...guilty of any wrongdoing," he told the Echo Moscow radio on Tuesday. Dubinin was ousted along with Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko for the Aug. 17 devaluation of the ruble, which caused Russia to default on some debts and worsened the economic...

...after all, agree to a special parliamentary session next week to consider legislation required for Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko's economic stabilization program. Zyuganov said the party's legislative leaders would consider calling the session...

...contingent on passage of the government's new austerity plan in Parliament -- no small hurdle. Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko delivered a blunt and gloomy report to Parliament on Friday, warning that social tensions are rising in Russia and...

...while still promising to follow a path of market-oriented reform. Earlier Wednesday, former Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko said the plan's vagueness has cost Russia any prospects for international aid. "There is no chance of receiving...

...Zadornov said. "There is no sense in concealing it, but we must keep it to a minimum." Former Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko noted that an increase in the money supply will lead to high inflation, and said the government should concentrate...