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...average Russian about Boris Yeltsin’s “shock therapy” approach to privatization in the early 1990s, and you’ll get anything from a sour frown to a brief sampling of the more colorful metaphors Russians use to describe the activities those they don’t like perform on their mothers...
...letter to AID officials complaining about the lack of funds for the project from the contractor, a company that had hired Bolton as a lawyer. "Within hours after dispatching that letter," Townsel told the committee, "my hell began. Mr. Bolton proceeded to chase me through the halls of a Russian hotel--throwing things at me, shoving threatening letters under my door and generally behaving like a madman ... Mr. Bolton then routinely visited [my hotel] to pound on the door and shout threats." Later, Townsel says, Bolton falsely told AID and other U.S. officials that she was under investigation for misuse...
...held liable for up to $34.8 million when a federal judge ruled that the University breached contract and Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82 and former Harvard employee Jonathan Hay conspired to defraud the government and violated the False Claims Act while advising the Russian government on its transition to capitalism. The University must ensure that something similar does not happen again...
Thanks to backroom deal-making between the European Union and the Russian Federation—and despite persistent U.S. intransigence—the Kyoto Protocol on Global Climate Change finally came into force this February. Many believe that the resuscitation of the Kyoto deal is a momentous as well as joyful turning point in global climate policy...
...Indeed, Coke's acquisition of Multon marks a deeper commitment to the Russian market, linked to the emergence of viable Russian consumer brands. Winterton says Coca-Cola thought about introducing its own juices in Russia, but decided to acquire Multon because the Russian firm was already well established, with strong local brands. "It's a very good business that would be hard to compete against," he says. The story is the same at Orkla, a $5 billion Norwegian consumer goods and chemicals conglomerate that last December bought a Russian confectionery company called SladCo for an undisclosed amount. SladCo's revenues...