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2 unusual facts about Vladimir Shumeyko


1993 Russian constitutional crisis

Vladimir Shumeyko, first deputy prime minister, declared that the referendum would go ahead, but on April 25.

General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

Moreover, on 11 January 1995 at a meeting between Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin and the Chairmen of the Chambers of the Federal Assembly, Vladimir Shumeyko and Ivan Rybkin, President Yeltsin announced his intention to pull the General Staff completely out of the Defense Ministry and attach it directly to himself.



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