Former PM Kiriyenko Answers Questions of Gazeta.Ru Readers
Gazeta.ru
"Sergei Kiriyenko’s name became known nation-wide, when in April 1998 he became the youngest prime-minister in Russian history. He was forced to leave the post in the aftermath of the August 1998 economy collapse. In December 1998 his name hit the headlines again, when he established the all-Russian rightist political movement Novaya Sila (New Force), that later entered the Union of the Rightist Forces (SPS). In February 1999 he was a candidate Moscow mayor elections. Naturally, he lost the race to Luzhkov, having scored second-highest vote. In August 1999 Sergei Kiriyenko together with Boris Nemtsov and Irina Khakamada formed a pre-election bloc of the Union of Rightist Forces and became the lower house deputy in December. In May 2000 Vladimir Putin invited him to take the post of the presidential envoy to the Volga federal district."
26th December 2001, 14:55
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