MOSCOW -- Viktor Chernomyrdin, who served as Russia's prime minister in the turbulent 1990s as the country was throwing off communism and developing as a market economy, died Wednesday. He was 72. No ...

Viktor Chernomyrdin, who served as Russia's prime minister in the turbulent 1990s as the country was throwing off communism and developing as a market economy, died Wednesday. He was 72. The Kremlin ...

The movement of Russia into the community of nations, nudged by the United States, proceeds apace with little notice. While the Yeltsin government was convulsed with parliamentary rebuke and ...

Viktor Chernomyrdin, 72, who served as Russia’s prime minister in the turbulent 1990s as the country was throwing off communism and developing as a market economy, died Wednesday in Moscow. The cause ...

MOSCOW Viktor S. Chernomyrdin, who served as Russia’s prime minister during the turbulent transition to a free-market economy in the 1990s and who founded the state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom, died ...

MOSCOW—Viktor Chernomyrdin, the jowly, stolid Soviet apparatchik who founded the world's biggest gas company as the Soviet Union was teetering and helped guide Russia through years of chaos following ...

MOSCOW, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Former Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin was buried Friday in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery in a service attended by Russia's top leaders. President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime ...

IT WAS, according to his predecessor Yegor Gaidar, “the most expensive economics education in history”. Even that may be too kind. Viktor Chernomyrdin's first term as prime minister from December 1992 ...

Viktor Chernomyrdin, who served as Russia's prime minister in the turbulent 1990s as the country was throwing off communism and developing as a market economy, died Wednesday. He was 72. No cause of ...

Viktor Chernomyrdin, who died on November 3 aged 72, hauled the Russian energy giant Gazprom out of the claws of the dying Soviet state and created one of the world’s largest companies; in the 1990s ...

WHEN Boris Yeltsin made Viktor Chernomyrdin Russia's prime minister in December 1992, horror seized Russia's liberal intelligentsia and many Western governments. The Soviet gas minister, 54, ...