A Russian businessman-turned-politician who is regarded as the country’s most influential Jew was removed from a key political post. In a sudden move, Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired Boris Berezovsky from his post as executive secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a loose body that unites the 12 former Soviet republics. Berezovsky, once a key Yeltsin supporter, was sacked for “exceeding the limits of his authority” and failing to fulfill Yeltsin’s orders, according to the president’s press office.
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