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  • American Businessmen Miss Yeltsin’s Russia

    09/04/2002 4:57:17 AM PDT · by Jasonconley · 191+ views
    PRAVDA.Ru ^ | Sep, 04 2002 | Dmitry Slobodanuk
    When economic reforms started in Russia, US companies were enthusiastic about buying Russian enterprises at give-away prices. Further, such enterprises were successfully closed, which allowed foreign businessmen to take their goods out of the country, as they were not satisfied with import substitution in Russia. When customs duties were overstated, Russia couldn’t afford to import any more. However, some foreign businessmen still preferred to develop firms in Russia. Others, on the contrary, gave up, and Russian businessmen finally gained control over the enterprises. And now, when these Russian businessmen are rather successful, the Americans suddenly declared that they are also...
  • Russian Mafia Has Kremlin Connections

    05/01/2002 12:04:17 PM PDT · by Ivan the Terrible · 6 replies · 336+ views
    newsmax.com ^ | March 20, 2002 | Col. Stanislav Lunev
    Last week, a Swiss prosecutor found former Kremlin aide and present Secretary General of the Union between Russia and Belarus, Pavel Borodin, guilty of money laundering. Prosecutor Bernard Bertossa convicted Borodin and ordered him to pay a fine of 300,000 Swiss francs ($177,000). Switzerland issued an international arrest warrant for Borodin in December 1999 on suspicion of laundering up to $30 million linked to a lucrative Kremlin renovation contract awarded to two Swiss-based construction companies. He was arrested in New York in January 2001 and extradited to Switzerland in early April. After spending a few days behind bars, he was...