Boris Fyodorov

MOSCOW—Boris Fyodorov, a reformist financier who helped bring Russian economy out of the post-Soviet chaos, has died, his company said in a statement. He was 50.

Russian television said Fyodorov had a heart attack in London three weeks ago and died in a clinic there.

Fyodorov was among the economists who fostered reforms in Russia before and after the 1991 Soviet collapse. He also founded one of the country’s largest investment banks, the United Financial Group.

Fyodorov’s background was in the planned socialist economy, but he was one of the first Russian financiers to adopt the Western model of a liberal market economy. In 1990, he was one of the authors of “500 Days,” an anti-crisis program that envisaged the end of price regulation and the privatization of state companies.

But all did not work out as planned: The results of privatization were flawed, and a small group of businessmen amassed vast fortunes and gained control over key sectors of Russian economy.

Fyodorov held several top government posts in the 1990s, including finance minister and vice premier, and was also elected to the State Duma, the lower house of parliament.



Bob Jeter

MILWAUKEE—Former Green Bay Packers cornerback Bob Jeter, the father of Wisconsin-Milwaukee men’s basketball coach Rob Jeter, has died. He was 71.

Jeter died Thursday in Chicago, apparently of cardiac arrest, Wisconsin-Milwaukee spokesman Kevin O’Connor said, quoting the younger Jeter.

The elder Jeter played on the Green Bay teams that won the NFL championship in 1965 and the first two Super Bowls. He played for the Packers from 1963-70 and was with the Chicago Bears from 1971-73. He was inducted in 1985 into the Packers Hall of Fame.

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Jim Mattox

AUSTIN, Texas (AP)—Jim Mattox, a former Texas attorney general who also served in Congress and battled Ann Richards in a vicious primary campaign for governor, has died. He was 65.

Mattox, a bare-knuckled political brawler while the state was still fiercely Democratic, died Thursday at his Dripping Springs home, said his sister, Janice Mattox. She did not know the cause of death.

As attorney general, Mattox was head of the agency that fought efforts to spare condemned inmates from death. In late 1983, he showed up in Huntsville to be on hand for a midnight execution, the second injection ever carried out in Texas.

An angry crowd threatened to get out of control when Mattox announced that the U.S. Supreme Court had ordered a delay. Security was tightened and the public was never again allowed to get near the doors of the prison in the hours preceding an execution.

Mattox continued to travel to Huntsville and was a fixture at executions in Texas, the nation’s most active death penalty state.