Yevgeny Primakov

Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov (, tr. "Yevgeniy Maksimovich Primakov"; 29 October 1929 – 26 June 2015) was a Russian politician and diplomat. He was the Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999.
Primakov was born to a partly Jewish family (his mother was Jewish) in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union now Ukraine.