PRINT INTERVIEWS AND MENTIONS (Selected)

The Guardian (UK)
23 January, 2001

Bush faces a different Russia. (Excerpt)

Ian Traynor

"The American anthropologist, Janine Wedel, in various books and articles, has analysed in devastating detail how US policy through the 90s was hijacked by a small and unaccountable clique of Russian and American economic liberals grouped around Anatoliy Chubais in Russia and free market economists at Harvard. "

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The Guardian, 23 January, 2001.

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The Guardian (UK)
16 December, 1999

The hungry bear. (Excerpt)

Jonathan Steele

In the US the "who lost Russia?" debate is another sign that western governments and the neo-liberal economists are beginning to see they failed. What makes the new consensus irritating is its assumption that no one got Russia right, and that it was only last year's financial crash which revealed that reform was not what it seemed. In fact, some experts saw it several years earlier. Janine Wedel, in her book Collision and Collusion, revealed how the "econo-lobbyists", several of them based at Harvard, set up shop in Russia and made a good deal of money for themselves as well as for the crony capitalists by helping to control the flow of foreign aid.

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The Guardian, December 16, 1999.