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Ivan Goremykin was the successor to Sergei Witte as Prime Minister of Russia after Witte's resignation in 1906. Goremykin was a conservative and opposed the reforms that Witte had been pushing for. He was also opposed to the Duma, the Russian parliament, and did not want it to have any real power. Goremykin's tenure as prime minister was marked by political instability and economic problems.