I do have to disagree with Taibbi on one point... Very little of the Russian economy is in foreign hands. That's the one bonus of an oligarchic system -- they screw foreigners, not the other way around.
Shock the Monkey Yegor Gaidar brings his heavy bag of instruments to Iraq.
I interrupt my campaign diaries to bring the people of New York a startling Holy-Shit-O-Gram from Moscow. Early last week it was announced that the U.S., in the person of L. Paul Bremer III, had invited one Yegor Gaidar to Baghdad to assist in the development of Iraq’s postwar, "transition" economy.
http://nypress.com/16/38/news&columns/cage.cfm
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