Word: kompromat
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Dates: during 1997-1997
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...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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