Sergei Stepashin: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin (Серге́й Вади́мович Степа́шин) (born March 2, 1952) is a politician in Russia. He was appointed interior minister by President Boris Yeltsin in 1998, and served in that position until May 1999, when he was appointed and confirmed by parliament as prime minister. Yeltsin made it fairly clear when he was appointed that Stepashin would be a temporary prime minister, and he was replaced in August 1999 by the future president, Vladimir Putin.