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...hostile to the big private corporations that control much of Russia's natural resources. Some members of the group, Pavlovsky adds, probably also want a cut of the businesses themselves. The other faction is known as the Family. They are the relatives and close associates of former President Boris Yeltsin, who continue to maintain discreet influence on economic policy, working through Alexander Voloshin, the head of the presidential administration. Voloshin had the same post under Yeltsin. Upcoming elections have exacerbated tension between the two groups. Enter Khodorkovsky. In the past few months he has become remarkably talkative about politics...
...only private national television station. After a three-year fight, the network now finally passes into the hands of Putin allies. The house elf has got his revenge. Launched in 1993 by the then powerful oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky as the flagship of his Media-Most holding, NTV helped Boris Yeltsin win re-election in July 1996 against seemingly impossible odds, and afterward enjoyed preferential treatment. NTV anchors got easy access to Kremlin insiders. Parfyonov, 43, became a star. His documentaries on Russian and Soviet history and culture were educational, entertaining and immensely popular. Namedni's informal style and Parfyonov...
...said that it was too early to evaluate fully the impact of perestroika. But he said reforms under his successor, Boris Yeltsin, that moved the country further toward a market economy came with “too high a price”—rampant poverty...
Gorbachev also took a shot at the international community—and Harvard—for its mistakes in attempts to assist his country in decentralizing its economy during the Yeltsin years...
...also paid a visit to the famous Aurora spa, hoping to experience one of Issyk-Kul's other attractions: the mud bath. But it was not to be. On offer instead were such dubious delights as "lavage of the stomach" and "urological prostate massage." This might be Boris Yeltsin's cup of tea. But for us, the beach beckoned...