Primakov famously turned his plane around over which ocean?
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In 1999, then Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov abruptly diverted his plane back to Moscow while en route to Washington, D.C., in response to NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia. This dramatic move, famously known as the "Primakov Turnaround", was a symbolic act of defiance against NATO's intervention and a display of Russia's independent foreign policy.
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