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TEHRAN: They may be men of the cloth, but when it comes to political infighting, Iran?s conservatives play dirty pool. This week Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi, a key aide of the moderate President Mohammed Khatami, was arrested on corruption charges. ?The charges are widely regarded as bogus, because Karbaschi is one of the cleanest politicians in the country,? says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. ?This is the strongest challenge yet to Khatami by the conservatives who are resisting his moves to thaw relations with Washington.? Although Khatami and his government have condemned the arrest -- and arranged...
...they had to resign. Chubais was determined to get him for that, and the oligarchs were perfectly happy to see Kulikov go. He was no respecter of private property. And he seemed eager to be a political kingmaker in 2000, using his ministry troops and snoops to back Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, another foe of the free market...
...Minister of Fuel and Energy in the old Cabinet. He's a former communist youth leader and oil-company executive from the reform-oriented city of Nizhni Novgorod. He arrived in Moscow last year, along with Boris Nemtsov, who became a First Deputy Prime Minister. Nemtsov, the former mayor of Nizhni Novgorod, is one of Yeltsin's favorites, and he will probably reappear in a senior post in the next Cabinet. The combination of Kiriyenko and Nemtsov might provide a small boost for reform, the lagging pace of which Yeltsin has been insisting was the main reason for the mass...
...most businesses) in Moscow have mafia and security connections called a "krysha," or "roof." The high-level people, usually well established in the Russian Mafia world, are paid to look out for the establishment's interests. In a city where media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky runs his business out of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's office, mafiosi sit in the Duma--Russia's national legislature--and the sale of pirated videos is a quasi-legitimate business, the line between legal and illegal procedure is hopelessly fuzzy...
...face of Russian reform has a new blemish -- a pustule, in fact. The country's third-largest city, Nizhni Novgorod, yesterday elected as its mayor Andrei Klimentyev -- a multimillionaire known in the underworld as "The Pustule.? Klimentyev has done two jail terms for fraud, and currently faces a number of other criminal charges...