Moscow - President Boris Yeltsin found a compromise formula yesterday to keep Mr Anatoly Chubais in the government, despite a corruption scandal, while replacing him as finance minister with a respected liberal economist, Mr Mikhail Zadornov (34).
The shake-up was aimed at ending a serious political crisis caused by allegations last week that Mr Chubais, architect of Russia's free-market reforms, and four other senior government figures had taken bribes from a bank.
