The Soros/Khodorkovsky's mafia privatization party?
This Yabloko Party has been voting against every budget the Duma has wanted (and luckily passed) because Russia plans not be to eaten up by that little IMF game after which people like Soros swoop in and buy the state's resources for pennies. And good for Russia and the Russian people! They don't seem too keen on all this privatisation
and foreigners buying up their media.
It's with little tricks and political manouverings like this that under the guise of an 'improved Democracy' (like the one they're trying to bring to Venezuela) that Soros and his friends Lucchini Ltd were able to acquire Poland's huge multi-billion dollar steel company "Huta Warszawa" for $30 million.
I wonder just how quickly Putin will move on his plans to move to the Euro now? What will that frat boy do then?
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Duma Centre not to vote down Cabinet
The reformist YABLOKO group and Communists will shortly call on the State Duma, parliament's lower house, to vote no confidence in the government. They will certainly not have Centrist support, said Anatoly Aksakov as he was summing up for the media a Coordination Council session of the four Centre groups.
The no confidence call is a blatant pre-election stunt with selfish interests behind it, pointed out Mr. Aksakov, first deputy leader of the People's Deputy group.
Ii will certainly badly undermine Russian social stability if parliament turns to pushing down the Cabinet when it ought to concentrate on next year's federal budget draft, he remarked.
http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/06/09/48059.htmlJanuary 31
Soros says IMF should pull out of Russia
US financier George Soros said on Sunday the International Monetary Fund should pull out of Russia in view of the current political climate there. Foreign institutions and investors "have lost the ability to influence the direction of events" in Russia, Soros, chairman of the influential Soros Fund Management, told a news conference at the World Economic Forum meeting.
"My personal belief is I do think that with the political developments moving in the wrong direction, the IMF should pull out of Russia," said Soros, asked whether the IMF should withdraw funding.
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On Saturday, the IMF's No.2 official said the fund may delay paying Russia the second US$460 million installment of a US$4.5 billion loan until after presidential elections in March.
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http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/4080.html