Yeltsin Dismisses His Chief of Staff
The political scandal brewing around Russia’s prosecutor general may have claimed its first Kremlin casualty Friday as President Boris N. Yeltsin fired his chief of staff.
Nikolai N. Bordyuzha was removed from both the presidential administration and the National Security Council, which he headed, one day after Yeltsin named him to head the panel investigating the furor surrounding Prosecutor General Yuri I. Skuratov. Skuratov has been at the center of a burgeoning scandal that grew only hotter after a tape aired on state television Thursday that apparently shows him having sex with two women.
The Kremlin press service said only that Bordyuzha “was relieved of duties in connection with a transfer to another job.”
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