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The New Republic
March 22, 1999
What Went Wrong. (Excerpt)
Jacob Heilbrunn
"As George Washington University Professor Janine R. Wedel shows in Collision and Collusion, the [Clinton] administration singled out a group of self-styled reformers known in Russia as the "Chubais clan"--after St. Petersburg politician Anatoly Chubais--and funneled hundreds of millions of dollars through it into the Russian economy. The contacts between these reformers and the Clinton administration could not have been closer. Lawrence Summers, deputy secretary of the U.S. Treasury, worked to help propel them into government--and, through them, to guide Russian economic policy."
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The New Republic
June 7, 1999
What Went Wrong. (Excerpt)
Jacob Heilbrunn
"In the early of Yeltsin's presidency, Chubais assembled what his friend Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers called a "dream team" to handle most of the Western aid flowing into Russia. But the Chubais team ended up supervising rigged privatization schemes that benefited themselves rather than the country; according to Janine R. Wedel's book Collision and Collusion, the reformers "obstructed reform when such initiatives originated outside their own group or when the initiatives were perceived as conflicting with [their] agenda." The reign of this clan came, or seemed to come, to a close with the economic crash in August and Yeltsin's removal of Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko."
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