Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - Region: Russia, grade: 1,7, Martin Luther University (Institut fr Politikwissenschaft), course: Au enpolitik Russlands, language: English, abstract: This research paper outlines the life of Yevgeny Primakov, describe his activities, and emphasize his importance to Putinism. Which influence did Primakov have on the foreign affairs of Russia? Primakov was foreign minister and prime minister of the Russian Federation in the 1990s. He was a bold critic of the oligarchs and their neoliberal capitalism, a staunch defender of Russian national interests after the pro-western foreign policy of the early post-Soviet years, and a man whom many Russians considered the best president their country never had.