Word: kompromat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Luzhkov, however, has been dogged by a relentless Kremlin smear campaign. Last summer, for instance, rumors circulated that the government was planning to release damning kompromat (compromising materials) about him. One version current in the Duma was that this would take the form of a tape, either video or audio, of Luzhkov ordering the murder of a business rival. No tape ever surfaced, but the prospect of a brutal war of charge and countercharge reinforced the urgings of some of the mayor's advisers: forget about the presidency, back someone else and position yourself to be the great reformist Prime...
...destroy Anatoli Chubais shows it is still going strong. First Deputy Prime Minister and the dominant voice in economic policy, Chubais is under relentless attack by two of the biggest magnates, Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky. The classic weapons of Russian politics are being used: compromising documents known as kompromat, the media, envoys shuttling back and forth across the Atlantic to persuade the Clinton Administration that Chubais is soiled goods. They have already crippled him; two weeks ago, Boris Yeltsin removed him from the key position of Finance Minister. But Chubais' enemies will not rest until they have finished...
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