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...mammoth bank accounts and princely villas that have become trademarks of nouveau riche Russians abroad, are beginning to close their doors and their borders to some of the richest. And many powerful Russian tycoons must think twice before boarding an outbound flight lest they share the fate of Pavel Borodin, the erstwhile Kremlin property manager and multimillionaire who was arrested last month in New York on an extradition request from Switzerland alleging involvement in money laundering...
...inside the Kremlin - and then was publicly humiliated by a video showing him in bed with prostitutes - may be a sign that Putin's power won't necessarily translate into an aggressive campaign against graft. "This is a move that primarily protects Yeltsin and his former top aide Pavel Borodin, who originally brought Putin to work in the Kremlin," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "It now looks as though the investigation of the Mabetex affair, the biggest scandal of the Yeltsin administration, which involved allegations of Kremlin officials taking bribes from a Swiss construction company, may be buried along...
...intimate of Yeltsin who helped bankroll his 1996 re-election, and reputedly handles the Yeltsin family finances--to misappropriate hard-currency receipts diverted from the Russian airline Aeroflot. In the other instance a Swiss-based construction company called Mabetex allegedly paid bribes to government officials, notably Pavel Borodin, another Yeltsin intimate and manager of the Kremlin's vast properties, to win lucrative renovation contracts. One witness has told Swiss authorities he saw credit-card receipts for personal purchases made by Yeltsin and his daughters paid by Mabetex. Yeltsin, Borodin, Benex and Mabetex all deny the accusations. And the Russian President...
...close friend and ghostwriter. "The President decided in February that the campaign Soskovets was running was going nowhere. He needed someone he could trust completely, and she was it." None of Yeltsin's other senior campaign officials was "what you would call pleased with Tatiana's placement," adds Pavel Borodin, Yeltsin's Minister of the Presidency, the government's general-services manager. "But because she had no personal agenda they couldn't plot against her. Her power obviously derived from that, but also from her native intelligence and the knowledge she gained from the Americans, who brought us a professionalism...
...then the team went to work. A great deal of their communication with Dyachenko and Yeltsin's other aides was conducted by written memorandums. "Translation was a constant problem," says Dresner. "We spent a full day trying to convey what we meant by having Yeltsin stay 'on message.'" Minister Borodin says, "Having the memos let the President consider them calmly. We had many discussions about the recommendations and in the end adopted most everything the Americans advised...