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Grigory Rapota,
State Secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus
WHEN HE JOINED the intelligence service, he in-
troduced methodology. It should be pointed out that
he received a guarded welcome, and that was only
natural. An outsider, a civilian and Academy of Sci-
ences' member ends up in a professional milieu,
among people who have been working in the intelli-
gence service for many years. Nevertheless, within a
very short time, he managed to remove the wall of caution, and before long we felt real colleagues
- colleagues doing the same thing.
It is essential to note that understanding the importance of expert analysis with regard to any
issue, Yevgeny Maksimovich conferred with those who dealt with a particular subject. Eventually,
he could disagree and make a different decision, but all those who participated in that knew that
their opinion would be heard and heeded. This is very important. And this is perhaps what we
lack in our life today.
Yuri Shafranik,
President of the World Politics and Resources Foundation
I believe that the shock of the 1998 crisis can be
compared neither to 1991 nor to 1993. That was the
time when Yevgeny Maksimovich headed the gov-
ernment, and the step that he took by assuming re-
sponsibility for the country can be regarded as a
heroic deed. Furthermore, Primakov and his govern-
ment led the country out of the crisis. Within a very
short period, they managed to boost the country's development.
I would particularly like to note that for the first time the country had received a positive effect
from state policy. Even though Primakov headed the Russian government for a very short time,
the following 15 years moved along the vectors set by Yevgeny Maksimovich. He was able to re-
verse the good for nothing liberal policy that had brought our country to the verge of an abyss
and to set a different trend for the development of the state, which is maintained today, albeit
not without difficulty.
Anatoly Torkunov,
Rector, Moscow State Institute (University) of International
Relations, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Member of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
OUR GENERATION became acquainted with him
above all by reading his materials in the Pravda daily.
There is no doubt that his name is in the same league
of unique foreign policy journalists as Melor Sturua,
Valentin Zorin, Tomas Kolesnichenko, Stanislav