Russia Reformer Chubais Survives Assassination Bid

Judi Lynn

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Thu Mar-17-05 06:12 AM
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Russia Reformer Chubais Survives Assassination Bid

Russia Reformer Chubais Survives Assassination Bid
Thu Mar 17, 2005 05:54 AM ET

By Douglas Busvine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Anatoly Chubais, head of Russia's state power monopoly, survived an assassination attempt on Thursday by assailants who detonated a roadside bomb and sprayed his convoy with a hail of automatic gunfire.

The 49-year-old Chubais, one of Russia's best-known figures, came to prominence as the architect of post-Soviet economic reforms under which two dozen "oligarchs" acquired vast wealth while ordinary people suffered a huge slump in living standards.

He is currently chief executive of Unified Energy System, and the prime mover behind reforms to introduce competition to the power sector of the world's largest country.

In his first comment since the attack, Chubais said he knew who wanted him dead, but did not name them, and refused to be intimidated.
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7931016

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ausiedownunderground

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Thu Mar-17-05 06:20 AM
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1. Chubais not as bad as this article makes out!

Back in the Bad old "Boris" days this guy fought hard to change Russia's state enterprise's in a far fairer "capitalistic" way than what eventually happenend. He got out muscled by the Jewish Oligarch's! in the end. In fact Chubais might be Jewish as well?

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bemildred

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Thu Mar-17-05 11:29 AM
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2. You gotta wonder why they want him dead now?

The Yukos mess? Does he know unfortunate facts?
There have been recent little messinesses in that regard
in Israel and Spain of late.

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