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Well, yes, in a way. Stepping boldly in to exploit the crisis was money power. Men made rich through political connections in the post-Soviet economy have wielded substantial influence ever since they got rich buying up government assets at bargain prices and two years ago financed Yeltsin's come-from-behind election victory. The reappointment of Chernomyrdin, the ponderous former natural-gas bureaucrat who was for years Yeltsin's most obedient Prime Minister, signals the intention of these rich men to obtain a government that will protect their ill-gotten assets...
However, some spirited competitors have arrived in post-Soviet Russia to challenge vodka's historic supremacy. Beer distillers from around the world are trying to pry open what they see as an extremely lucrative market for alcohol. Companies like BBH, owner of Russia's most popular national beer, Baltika, and Efes are building $100 million breweries in Moscow and St. Petersburg to capitalize on a beer-thirsty market. This situation is quite a change for Russain beer-drinkers of the cold-war era, who were used to brews containing "water, topped up with detergent to create the impression of beer...
Fredo Arias-King, a graduate student in Russian studies, is founding editor of the Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization...
...graduate student might be training with Gary King [who teaches a class in advanced quantitative research methodology] and he might be sent to [Director of the Russian Research Center] Timothy Colton. Colton has access to data in post-Soviet Russia which we couldn't get otherwise," Shepsle says...
VOLGOGRAD, Russia: Struggling to compensate workers in the cash-strapped post-Soviet era, Russian bureaucrats in Volgograd have turned to an even older form of payment to offer their workers: Turnips. And carrots, beets, and other assorted vegetables from the local harvest. The workers, who are owed about $175,000, refused the offer and staged a one hour protest strike. They say they will strike for real next week if they are not paid in cash. But in a country where even soldiers are reduced to begging on street corners to make enough cash for lunch, workers might ultimately have...