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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Chubais



Anatoly Borisovich Chubais (Russian: Анато́лий Бори́сович Чуба́йс; born 16 June 1955) is a Russian politician and businessman who was responsible for privatization in Russia as an influential member of Boris Yeltsin's administration in the early 1990s.[1] During this period, he was a key figure in introducing market economy and the principles of private ownership to Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.
From 1998 to 2008, he headed the state-owned electrical power monopoly RAO UES. A 2004 survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Financial Times named him the world's 54th most respected business leader.[2] Currently, he is the head of the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation (RUSNANO).[3] He has been a member of the Advisory Council for JPMorgan Chase since September 2008 and a member of global board of advisers at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) since October 2012.[4]
 
In any case, Chubais said in his interview today that his and Putin’s views concerning democracy are “similar.” However, he also said he had never discussed the issue with Putin.
In a doctrinal document published just before Yeltsin’s resignation, Putin, who made his career in the Soviet KGB, said that Russia cannot at its current stage of development be a model Western-style democracy like Great Britain, and that the state would have to continue to play a strong regulatory role. He promised, however, that the state will protect the basic democratic rights of Russian citizens.
Some Soviet-era dissidents and human rights campaigners, however, have been less sanguine than Chubais about what Putin’s accession might mean for democracy. In an interview published just before Yeltsin’s resignation, Sergei Grigoryants, head of the Glasnost Foundation, warned that Putin and Berezovsky were “rushing to establish control over the mass media” and that censorship had already been imposed on state media and those belonging to Berezovsky–on reporting involving not only the war in Chechnya, but also “the internal situation in Russia, Western assessments of Russian politics and much else.” Grigoryants added: “It is still hard to say whether we are capable of protecting that little for which we paid so dearly over the last decade–above all,
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin#1996_presidential_election


On 9 August 1999 Yeltsin fired his prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time, fired his entire cabinet. In Stepashin's place he appointed Vladimir Putin, relatively unknown at that time, and announced his wish to see Putin as his successor. In late 1999 Yeltsin and President Clinton openly disagreed on the war in Chechnya. At the November meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Clinton pointed his finger at Yeltsin and demanded he halt bombing attacks that had resulted in many civilian casualties. Yeltsin immediately left the conference.[63]
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Spectator




The American Spectator is a conservative U.S. monthly magazine covering news and politics, edited by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. and published by the non-profit American Spectator Foundation.
From 1967 until the late 1980s, the magazine featured the writings of authors such as Thomas Sowell, Tom Wolfe, P.J. O'Rourke, George F. Will, Malcolm Gladwell, Patrick J. Buchanan, and Malcolm Muggeridge. During the 1990s, the magazine was better known for its reports on Bill Clinton and its "Arkansas Project", funded by businessman Richard Mellon Scaife and the Bradley Foundation.[1] The American Spectator has carried articles by Thomas Sowell,[2] a regular column by economist and celebrity Ben Stein,[3] as well as articles by a variety of less-famous conservative commentators such as former Reagan aide Jeffrey Lord,[4] conservative health care consultant David Catron,[5] and editorial director Wladyslaw Pleszczynski,[6] as well as occasional articles by P.J. O'Rourke.[7]
 
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