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MOSCOW: The Kremlin may not yet be for sale, but it certainly appears to be up for rent. And the scramble to buy influence inside there claimed another casualty Wednesday when Boris Yeltsin dismissed Boris Berezovsky, one of the country's most powerful men, amidst a power struggle with Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais and other members of Yeltsin?s government...
...view of the size of the gift, Moscow seemed almost ungrateful. Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his top aides were silent after Soros' announcement. The Kremlin has been leery of appearing to be too close to the 67-year-old financier, who has more than $2.5 billion worth of business investments in Russia. Soros' currency speculation has come under fire in other parts of the world. Russian communists and nationalists have been irritated because some of his charities promote free press and market reforms...
...Kremlin has also been reticent because the donation draws attention to the fact that he is funding programs the government has neglected. Russian leaders are nervous because Soros "is an idealist" who also happens to have billions of dollars, says Alexander Yakovlev, who served in Mikhail Gorbachev's Politburo. "He knows what Russian society is like, and that is why he is trying to change...
...previous visits, Vogel had pitched to Jiang the idea of speaking at Harvard. With the upcoming summit in Washington, it became possible for Jiang to visit the University, dubbed the Kremlin on the Charles by former President Nixon...
Some National Security Council aides are grumbling that they'd like to pull the plug on the twice-a-year meetings AL GORE has with Russian Premier VIKTOR CHERNOMYRDIN. The sessions, they say, have lately produced few results. Chernomyrdin has dropped in the Kremlin pecking order and can no longer deliver much. But the Veep, who's in Russia this week for his ninth Gore-Chernomyrdin commission meeting, is still high on the confabs. In past get-togethers Gore has hammered out agreements on unglamorous issues other politicians avoid, like environmental cleanup and health-care exchanges. This week's meeting...