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In this June 17, 1999 photo, Russia's special envoy on Kosovo Viktor Chernomyrdin speaks at a news conference in Moscow, Russia. Chernomyrdin, who served as Russia's prime minister in the turbulent 1990s as the country was throwing off communism and developing as a market economy, died Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010. He was 72. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)