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...TIME.com: So, for those around Putin, this action is broadly designed as a corrective to what Boris Yeltsin did in the 1990s, when he sold off many strategic industries at bargain-basement prices to the oligarchs in exchange for financing his election...
...TIME.com: So, where Yeltsin approached the West and the oligarchs as a supplicant, Putin is more assertive...
There's a neat symmetry to Putin's Chechenization scheme. The Chechen war, waged in 1994 by Putin's predecessor Boris Yeltsin, was supposed to be a brief punitive action against a small, unruly republic. But it ended in August 1996 with at least 80,000 Chechens dead, Russia humiliated and Chechnya independent in all but name. The experience was as scarring for Russia as Vietnam was for the U.S. In late 1999, after a series of apartment-block bombings in Moscow that the Kremlin blamed on Chechen terrorists, Putin, then Prime Minister, ordered the reinvasion of Chechnya, making...
...members of the Communist Party, as well as spies and diplomats - "to make contacts and develop sources," Tarpishchev says. Tennis was compulsory as well for the cosmonauts' training program as the only game that fully relaxes one's brain. But the real breakthrough happened in 1990, when Yeltsin was photographed on a tennis court in shorts. His immense popularity at the time helped bring tennis to the masses. "Several factors just fell into place," says Yevgeny Zuyenko, Izvestia's sports editor. The élite followed the leader. The poor saw the money that top players were making. And bureaucrats...
...open season on oligarchs. Last week, prosecutors restarted an investigation into allegations that aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska had illegally acquired assets in a major insurance company. Deripaska denies any wrongdoing. This is a separate and complex case, but the fact that Deripaska is related by marriage to the Yeltsin family added to the mood of factionalism run amok. Two key Kremlin officials, Viktor Ivanov and Igor Sechin, have been repeatedly singled out in the Russian press as playing a crucial role in the Khodorkovsky affair. Many observers feel they are a cover for Putin himself. "I don't see these...