The one you may be thinking of in particular (my wife) is no longer an employee of IMEMO. The folks I was referring to are actual current salary-earning IMEMO employees, hanging out in Vienna, etc. on private contracts to export or develop Russian oil, in addition, and a lot of other scams. These folks are the Noviy Russkiy par excellence. Barkley Rosser On Mon, 07 Sep 1998 23:34:45 +0100 Mark Jones <Jones_M at netcomuk.co.uk> wrote:
> Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
> >
> > Mark,
> > Most of the IMEMO (Institute of World Economy and
> > International Relations, formerly an advisory body to the
> > Central Committee of the CPSU and still a major think tank
> > in Moscow) crowd is thoroughly contracted out, operating
> > with at least three sets of books and trying to straddle
> > several different fences, those that are even still in the
> > country, with lots of them are operating out of Vienna and
> > similarly situated such venues, helping out all those
> > Russian oil and gas companies, just like you used to do,
> > Mark, :-).
>
> Some of them are helping bourgeois academics earn a crust from
> writing textbooks.
>
> Mark
-- Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu