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Izvestiya said that, with this, President Boris Yeltsin has effectively given up power and Novye Izvestiya that his second coming is attributable not to any failings by Chernomyrdin's predecessor, Sergei Kiriyenko, but to Yeltsin's decision not to seek re-election in 2000.
While welcoming the fact that he paid his first postelection foreign visit (but before he took over as chancellor) to France, the article noted that Schröder's French wasn't any better than that of his predecessor, Helmut Kohl.
His predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu has done "incalculable damage to the peace process" by throwing Israel's commitment to international treaties into doubt, the paper said.
Gray Davis to Los Angeles Superior Court, April 2000; partner, Morrison & Foerster, 1991-2000; partner, Hufstedler, Kaus & Ettinger (and predecessor firms), 1983-91; associate, Beardsley, Hufstedler & Kemble (and related firms), 1977-82 Law school: Harvard Law School Age: 49
De la Rua has pledged to maintain the fiscal successes of his predecessor, included a fiscal policy that helped stem the nation's hyperinflation.