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...exception to the regime of moral relativity that reigns in Moscow. He could come across as arrogant, aloof and driven. But most people believed he was honest. This perception has been vaporized by a campaign launched last month, immediately after Chubais and his fellow Deputy Prime Minister, Boris Nemtsov, engineered Berezovsky's dismissal from his government position...
...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...
...alliance of corrupt politicians, businessmen and crime bosses. It has shattered the credibility of the media, which for a few brief years following the collapse of the Soviet Union had a reputation for independence and integrity. And it has damaged the standing of the young reformers, Chubais and Nemtsov. Alexander Oslon, who polls every week for the presidential administration, takes a bleak view of the war. Says he: "This will be a conflict without winners...
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...