Word: nemtsov
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...declarations by Yeltsin and Chubais signaled the start of a bitter and potentially crucial power struggle between the government's young Vice Premiers, Chubais and Boris Nemtsov, on the one hand, and several of the most powerful oligarchs on the other. While Yeltsin instructed both sides in what is now known as the bankers' war to cool it, the war has instead heated up. Last week came news that one of the warring oligarchs had been questioned by Interior Ministry investigators and that one of his Russian-American associates had had his Russian visa confiscated as he left Moscow...
Another potential pain for Mosenergo shareholders was narrowly avoided last spring. Boris Nemtsov, Russia's reformist First Deputy Premier, personally intervened to block a planned limitation of shareholders' voting rights as well as a new stock issue that would have substantially diluted the holdings of foreign investors. Infringement of the rights of minority shareholders has been a recurrent problem in Russia, and one that President Boris Yeltsin's free market-oriented government continues to battle...
...security issues. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says she is encouraged by the assertive government shakeup last week, in which Yeltsin seemed to put economic and administrative reforms back atop his agenda. Reform is to be driven by two new First Deputy Prime Ministers, Anatoli Chubais and Boris Nemtsov, both dynamic and market-oriented politicians...
...right Russian nationalist whose novel approach to his country's declining birth rate was a suggestion that he personally sire children in different parts of the nation--doesn't hold with remarks impugning his morality. During an appearance with Zhirinovsky on a live talk show, rival politician BORIS NEMTSOV suggested that the extremist had contracted syphilis from the 200 women he told Playboy he'd slept with. "We can cure you," said Nemtsov. "We have two simple injections." In reply, Zhirinovsky threw juice at Nemtsov. Nemtsov threw juice back. The scuffle escalated, and after the show, formerly placatory host ALEXANDER...
Undaunted, the group barged into Nemtsov's office and began rifling through his drawers and filing cabinets. Then Zhirinovsky plopped down in the governor's chair and put in several calls on Nemtsov's hot line to the federal authorities in Moscow to complain about his unfriendly reception. No one would accept the calls, but before he left, three hours later, Zhirinovsky made sure his visit wouldn't be forgotten. He threatened to have the governor's entire staff imprisoned or executed. The week, however, was still young. On Thursday night, Zhirinovsky claimed he had escaped "an assassination attempt...