Talk:Yevgeny Primakov

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The rumour persists (www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2004/061204wolfhired.htm eg]) that he was hired by DHS, for TIPS or CAPPS II; but Iserbyt believed that is disinformation to hide his working for "OIA" (IAO?). Kwantus 20:38, 2005 Jan 9 (UTC)
 * United States Department of Homeland Security
 * Operation TIPS|TIPS
 * Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System|CAPPS II
 * Someone 15 years ago LOVED acronyms. Infinitepeace (talk) 01:16, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

KGB service
His official biography actually lists no KGB service until 1991 (when he was appointed to KGB in what was likely an attempt to overhaul the agency after KGB being involved in 1991 Soviet Coup attempt). Various sites speculate he might have been an undercover agent prior to that. Any reliable info on that? Andris 21:09, Jan 9, 2005 (UTC)

Primakov's original name
In his recent book "Russian Crossroads" (2004, Yale University Press) Primakov dismisses speculations claiming that his original name was Finkelshtein. "Later I learned that in other files I was called Finkelshtein. In this case I was completely at a loss - where did that come from?" (p. 17). Perhaps we should correct the entry here?

Is that a dismissal? Pretty easy to parse this as a disingenuous non-denial: "I "read" that someone suggested my name was Finkelshtein; I wonder why they'd say that?" instead of "It is simply not true that I was born "Finkelshtein"". Being suspected of having Jewish roots remains something of a stigma in Russia, and there's nothing in it for him to give credence to the claim. That said, it is probably something that should be reported as nothing more than a rumor.


 * I removed the "Finkelshtein" part. There seems to be no verification of this from either official or unofficial sources. The only source that sites this name is at http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-leaders-ussr-pm-yevgeny-primakov.html which is an amateur website at best. There are two facts which might explain the name's origins: (a) the father's identity has never been established, but the latest rumors seem to point to Irakli Andronikov (Ираклий Андроников), which seems Armenian. (b) A possible origin of this name was a discreditation campaign, as an article had been printed in a Russian newspaper in '92 which accused Primakov of working for Mossad (which, coupled with a Jewish nationality, would undermine his support, especially when working in intelligence).
 * source: http://compromat.ru/main/primakov/a.htm (in Russian)
 * Konstantin3307 04:27, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Re-opening a can of worms - His name
The assertion is made by US News and World Report in September 1998, as well as by  the New York Times. Further the assertion s made at MSN Encarta. 

I would have to go to the library and pay to access full articles, but the following sources also seem to make the assertion on first glance. Philadelphia Inquirer 9-11-98 Jerusalem Post 3-28-99

The sources all all older, but its hard to argue that there are absolutely no sources other than hate sites. TastyPoutine talk (if you dare) 18:23, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Edits by 62.248.39.230
Please check the his edit here and on other Russia related topic. I have no idea about validity but he has habit to put "claims" w/o source on Marc Rich page, so I got bit suspicious. Pavel Vozenilek 04:15, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * What this user keeps adding to the article here is sheer nonsense, not even a bad joke. I checked some of the last edits by  and while some of them look sensible, some appear nonsense and some are self-reverts. -  Introvert ~? 07:05, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

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The belief that Russia lost its capacity to engage in this kind of long-term action together with the fall of Communism is incorrect. A more thorough analysis shows that ‘the Marxist scientific worldview’ was very quickly replaced by a ‘geopolitical scientific worldview’ and, as during the Cold War, this concept was raised to the rank of an official doctrine of foreign and security policy. This geopolitical image of a world embedded in the civilisational framework lay at the heart of the ‘Primakov doctrine’ formulated in the 1990s....

Jolanta Darczewska, Piotr Żochowski: Active measures. Russia’s key export. OSW Point of View, No 64, June 2017.

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