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WORLD IN BRIEF : RUSSIA : Hospital Chief Fired After Yeltsin Stay

From Times Staff and Wire Reports

The day he left a hospital after two weeks of treatment for reported heart problems, Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin fired its director. Yeltsin signed a decree Monday firing Anatoly Martynov, general director of the presidential administration’s medical center, presidential spokesman Sergei Sidorov confirmed. Martynov has been criticized for poor job performance, a Moscow newspaper said.

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