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...book also suffers by association with Shleifer’s now infamous activities as an advisor to former President Boris Yeltsin for the Harvard Initiative for International Development (HIID). Shleifer allegedly invested indirectly in Russian companies affected by the policies he proposed, and Shleifer has since been sued by the U.S. government. He never makes more than oblique references to his work in Russia after the 1997 currency crisis, a point that will surely disappoint readers looking for the defendant’s perspective in the ongoing scandal...
...director of the SBU intelligence service, Olexander Turchinov, earlier told TIME that the defendants in the case included senior state officials, business leaders and SBU officers. Moscow Murder Bid RUSSIA Anatoly Chubais, head of the national electrical grid and a key architect of privatization under former President Boris Yeltsin, shrugged off an apparent assassination attempt, telling journalists he was expecting an attack. Assailants detonated a mine and strafed Chubais' car with automatic rifle fire as it left his home in the village of Zhavoronki, some 40 km outside Moscow. No one was injured. A Blow to Progress LEBANON The anti...
...made good on his word, stabilizing the currency. His work for the developing world had begun. He would later develop a radical economic program for the Solidarity-led Polish government that helped the country create a market economy. But he hit a wall as an adviser to Boris Yeltsin's Russia, where kleptocrats helped undermine his program. Disappointed, he resigned after two years...
These types of proposals are mired in what I’ll dub “realism.” They are based upon the assumption that students will drink (some even to the Ted Kennedy or Boris Yeltsin levels) and, therefore, attempt to find ways to keep the risk of overconsumption, or alcohol poisoning, to a minimum...
...received financial and political support from Qaeda-aligned elements abroad - and a handful of Arab mujahedeen have long played a role in the Chechen insurgency. The Russian crackdown, which began late in 1999 as Putin sent in troops to reverse the autonomy granted the region by former President Boris Yeltsin following a series of unsolved apartment bombings in Moscow - a brutal campaign that struck a popular chord and served as the would-be president's introduction to Russian voters - has certainly given Chechens plenty of reason to contemplate attacking Russians. Thousands of Chechens have been killed in the course...