A longtime Jewish member of several previous Russian Cabinets was appointed to a ministerial post within the new government of Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin. Alexander Livshits, a former finance minister, will be Russia’s special envoy responsible for contacts with the leading Western industrialized countries. He is the second Jew to serve in the current Cabinet, which also includes Ilya Klebanov, a deputy prime minster responsible for military and industrial affairs.
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