08/28/1998 10:57:18 Yeltsin sacks Chubais as Russia debt negotiator

MOSCOW, Aug 28 (Reuters) - President Boris Yeltsin on Friday

dismissed reformer Anatoly Chubais from the post of Russia's top

negotiator with international financial institutions, RIA news

agency said, quoting the Kremlin.

RIA gave no further details of Yeltsin's decree and the

Kremlin could not immediately comment on the agency report.

Chubais, formerly Russia's privatisation chief, played a key

role in winning a multi-billion dollar loan from the

International Monetary Fund in July.