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During the late 1990s, media attention has focused on a Justice Department investigation into acclaimed Professor of Economics Andrei Schleifer '82 and his former colleague on HIID's Russian project, Jonathan...
These two HIID staff members were accused of using their knowledge of and connections to the Russian economy to aid private investors...
...conflict started when these members of HIID's Russian team helped develop and fund an organization called the Institute for a Law-Based Economy (ILBE), which was created to write economic legislation and provide advising in Russia...
...medieval symbolism of planting your flag on a city and claiming you've won," says Zharakovich. "In a war against guerrilla forces, capturing a city doesn't mean anything." The bulk of the Chechen forces are already in the mountains to the south, and constant ambushes and attacks behind Russian lines signify the limits of territorial control in this war. Still, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin desperately needs a way to declare victory in the popular military campaign that he hopes will carry him to the presidency in March. And he appears to have decided that his road to the Kremlin...
...Annan's nomination of Swedish diplomat Rolf Ekeus to head up a new U.N. weapons-monitoring commission in Iraq. Ekeus, a former head of the soon-to-be-disbanded UNSCOM, had been widely viewed as being both sufficiently diplomatic and sufficiently forceful to get the job done, but the Russian veto reflects deep divisions in the Security Council over the future of sanctions against Iraq. "The U.S. wants the new monitoring system as a basis to maintain sanctions against Iraq," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "But the Russians and the French are deeply opposed to sanctions, and favor...