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WHAT IS THE ROOT OF THE CURRENT DIFFICULTIES IN THE LIVES OF MANY RUSSIANS? [Former President Boris] Yeltsin ruined the country. He allowed the wealth of the country to be taken by a few people. And the West was never critical of Yeltsin. I think President Vladimir Putin is correcting the mess that Yeltsin made...
...problem with Russian politics is that increasingly, everything flows according to Putin’s cravings. Long gone are the days when Kremlin-watchers thought this sober former KGB officer would copy-cat feeble former President Boris Yeltsin. Damningly, when the Kremlin intervened to rectify most of the shady privatizations of his predecessor, media freedom was severely obstructed. The State took control of most media outlets and kept them, minimizing criticism within its borders...
...Illarionov, 44, started in the Russian government at the heyday of the nascent and short-lived Russian democracy back in the 1990s as a member of ?young Turks? economists headed by Yegor Gaidar, Yeltsin's Acting Premier. In 1994, Illarionov quit the cabinet in the wake of his conflict with Premier Victor Chernomyrdin, whom he accused of stifling liberal reforms and staging an ?economic coup d?etat...
...tribunal attempts to address the unlawful actions of political and military leaders from the former Yugoslavia. Born in Lugano, Switzerland, the 52-year-old Del Ponte rose to the position of Swiss attorney general, investigating connections between Italian drug dealers and Swiss money launderers, former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and the traditional secrecy of Swiss financial institutions. Her investigation of the Sicilian mafia led to a failed attempt on her life when in 1988, when a half-ton of explosive was discovered in the foundation of her home in Palermo, Italy. In 1999, Del Ponte was named chief prosecutor...
...Insurance is the largest insurer. His mission: make clear to President Ferdinand Marcos that foreign investors were uneasy with the unstable government; he should step down or conduct fair elections. (Marcos didn't listen and ultimately fled in disgrace.) In the early 1990s Greenberg met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the Kremlin and won approval for an AIG investment there...