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>Chris, a bonus for whom other than the oligarchs ?
For the Kremlin and security services mainly, who want to keep foreign influence on Russia to a minimum. :)
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>I have to say as well, that I find Taibbi's comparison of the early
>Bolsheviks to arseholes like Chubais and Gaidar so grotesque that it's
>hilarious.
It's a stick Taibbi and others like to use to describe the Yeltsin years: "Market Bolshevism."
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