Word: potanin
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...next couple of years; it is also about who rules Russia after the year 2000, when presidential elections are due. Until now the oligarchs had clearly planned to have a major hand in electing the next President. They might well have put forward one of their own. In fact, Potanin, energetic, smart and articulate, is already being talked about as a future President, though he denied any such ambitions in an interview with TIME. Chubais, meanwhile, wants at least to be Prime Minister. But to succeed in politics one needs lots of money and media. Potanin has the money...