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Yevgeny Primakov, an economist who served as Russia’s prime minister in 1998-1999, has died aged 85, the Kremlin said on Friday.
Primakov was premier under president Boris Yeltsin and had also served as foreign minister. “He was a statesman, scientist, politician, he has left behind a great legacy,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.