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...West cheered a second great victory over communism, the oligarchs got even richer and a lot more powerful ? and Boris Yeltsin?s political survival became intimately linked with their fate. What the current crop of financial scandals points to is that in the '90s rush to exorcise the ghost of Stalinism, the distinctions between government, legitimate business and organized crime became dangerously blurred in Russia. "Crime, politics and business in Russia feed off each other," says Meier. "Russia?s huge criminal organizations were born, and continue to thrive, because of their access to political power...
Recalling a summit meeting with Boris Yeltsin, Major said he asked the Russian president to describe the state of Russia in one word...
...Good," Yeltsin replied...
...panic in Moscow isn?t on the streets; it?s in the Kremlin. Top Yeltsin aides have been stoking Russia?s rumor mill all week, hinting variously that their boss is considering declaring a state of emergency, planning to resign this weekend and call early presidential elections, or looking to simply rely on his familiar when-in-doubt-fire-the-prime-minister formula. Yeltsin aides are also warning that he?s facing another life-threatening health crisis and even ?- in the case of one bizarre story leaked from within the Kremlin ?- that the Russian president died last week. "There...
...that?s hardly surprising. A fourth bomb exploded in a St. Petersburg apartment building Thursday night, killing two people and wounding three others. But that attack wasn?t linked to the others, authorities said. That one was probably gang-related, they opined ?- simply business as usual in Boris Yeltsin?s Russia...