Word: factionalization
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...Tarpishchev, Yeltsin's coach and longtime confidant, founded the National Sports Foundation (nsf), Yeltsin gave it the right to import untaxed alcohol and tobacco. In the next four years, some $9 billion in revenues was allegedly diverted from the nsf. The ensuing scandal helped drive from power the Kremlin faction Tarpischev belonged to, though he has denied wrongdoing and no one has ever been charged. Moreover, tennis also makes a nice place to park ill-gotten gains. "The dirty money invested in courts seems more presentable than the dirty money just tucked away," says Izvestia's Zuyenko. Far removed from...
...expected, having gone along with the process primarily to stay on-side with Palestinian public opinion. The killing Hamas and Jihad operatives in the past two weeks provided the excuse needed to relaunch the terror war. Or even, if some suggest, the Jerusalem bombing was ordered by a Hebron faction rather than the Hamas leadership in Gaza, the net effect will be the same...
...goodwill visit to India at the time of the attacks?and lost no time in condemning them. He added that he would encourage both governments to hold peace talks, and called all Kashmiri militants to "cease their operations." Even Zafar Akbar, a senior commander of a breakaway faction of the Kashmiri guerrilla group Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, announced that he and "hundreds of colleagues" were renouncing violence for dialogue...
...billion-a-year, Fortune 500 firm would cost the economy billions of dollars by year's end. Despite such stakes, Putin has remained frustratingly, if typically, silent. Filling the vacuum are people close to the President saying openly that by attacking Khodorkovsky, a hard-line Kremlin faction known as the Petersburg group has escaped Putin's control. The group - made up largely of senior officials who, like Putin, are veterans of the Soviet KGB - is said to be trying to push the President into an aggressively populist stance in preparation for the presidential elections next spring, Gleb Pavlovsky...
...prosecutors restarted an investigation into allegations that aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska had illegally acquired assets in a major insurance company. Deripaska denies any wrongdoing. This is a separate and complex case, but the fact that Deripaska is related by marriage to the Yeltsin family added to the mood of factionalism run amok. Two key Kremlin officials, Viktor Ivanov and Igor Sechin, have been repeatedly singled out in the Russian press as playing a crucial role in the Khodorkovsky affair. Many observers feel they are a cover for Putin himself. "I don't see these folks as independent actors," says Michael...