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Around the country, it seemed everyone had something to say about Yeltsin's dismissal of Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko and appointment of Viktor Chernomyrdin as acting prime minister. Here are reactions from several regions, reported by Interfax-Eurasia.
YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK - Sakhalin Gov. Igor Farkhutdinov believes that "the fact of changing the Russian government shouldn't be taken as a dramatic happening," he said at an Aug. 24 press conference in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. "If the change of the government yields a positive impetus to the development of the Russian economy and the ruble is stabilized," he said, "a measure like this is quite justified." VLADIVOSTOK - Primorye Duma Chairman Sergei Dudnik said on Monday that he "welcomes any shake-ups in the government of the country if the citizens of Russia don't suffer from them." Dudnik didn't rule out that the government castling was pre-planned - Kiriyenko worked out unpopular measures and Chernomyrdin will put them into practice. At the same time, Dudnik stressed that the program of financial stabilization announced by Kiriyenko Aug. 17 is economically justified, and that's why the new government shouldn't be expected to change the course. BIROBIDZHAN - Jewish Autonomous Republic Legislature Chairman Stanislav Vavilov said that "the mess in the government won't do any good for Russia." He lamented that "the extremely unstable situation observed in the top echelon of power may reflect very negatively on the country's economy." PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY - "The Federal Assembly has once more been rudely slapped in the face," said Kamchatka Regional Council Chairman Lev Boitsov. "The representative branch is not treated this way in a civilized country." He said the anti-crisis measures that Kiriyenko passed were two to three years overdue. However, Chernomyrdin didn't have the political will to accomplish them.
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