Mr Kiriyenko said other government posts would be filled after another meeting with Mr Yeltsin next Tuesday.
This reverses the biggest achievement of Boris Yeltsin's short-lived, imperfect democracy: a peaceful transfer of power.
He organized Russia's most powerful bankers in support of President Yeltsin's presidential campaign earlier this year.
Russian President Vladimir Putin insists there are no plans to reverse the results of Yeltsin-era privatization.
Yeltsin took credit for prompting Milosevic to declare a unilateral cease-fire earlier this week.
Whether Boris Yeltsin, Russia's president, would attend was unclear up to the last minute.
As you know, the president leaves for Helsinki for his summit with President Yeltsin.
He has continued to worry the sickly Mr Yeltsin, and others close to him, ever since.
He supported Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first post-Soviet president, and was an early backer of Putin.
President Boris Yeltsin's Beijing trip, scheduled to begin April 24, should be quiet by comparison.
Russian President Boris Yeltsin said he had heard about "the untimely decease....with a great sorrow".
Russian President Boris Yeltsin made his first trip abroad since heart trouble in October.
The deals also created a strong, rich constituency of supporters for Mr Yeltsin's re-election in 1996.
The agreement should pave the way for a long delayed visit by Mr Yeltsin to Kiev.
They expect this support to harden, should President Boris Yeltsin die or leave office.
The Clinton Administration's immediate response to the Yeltsin announcement was largely the appropriate one.
So if Mr Yeltsin is seriously ill again, things will be even messier than before.
President Yeltsin needs the support of regional big-shots, who make up parliament's powerful upper house.
Even now, Mr Yeltsin seems to view declarations of intent as an acceptable substitute for action.
Mr Yeltsin also recently backed away from a thorough reform of the tax code.
And next week, when Mr Yeltsin is due to give his annual policy address to parliament?
He has also been pursuing Boris Berezovsky, a business tycoon and former intimate of Mr Yeltsin's.
In any case, the finger on the nuclear button is not Mr Primakov's but Mr Yeltsin's.
Even if Mr Yeltsin secures his own survival for now, his choices are limited.
When Mr Yeltsin's popularity with the public was at its lowest, hardliners grabbed their chance.
After Mr Yeltsin's re-election, these promises evaporated, and, four years later, the problem remains.
Mr Yeltsin's main innovation has been his pragmatism, and its usefulness is far from exhausted.
Mr Yeltsin would then have had to dissolve the Duma and call a general election.
Mr Yeltsin and his foreign minister, Yevgeny Primakov, are made of more sensible stuff.
Mr Yeltsin is sidelined, Mr Primakov perhaps taking over from him in a snap presidential election.
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