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Abstract
Vladimir Shevchenko—deputy head of the Administration of the President, head of the President's Protocol Service, extraordinary and plenipotentary ambassador—prepared more than ninety foreign trips for Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin during his years of service. Someone in such a position must have a phenomenal memory: one can only imagine how many people in high posts he had the occasion to meet during his Kremlin service.