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Article: RUSSIA: PUTIN TRIES TO DISTANCE HIMSELF PUBLICLY FROM BEREZOVSKII?(Vladimir Putin; Boris Berezovskii)(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- March 2, 2000
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One of acting President Putin's top economic advisers, German Gref, called on 29 February for the creation of another national airline to compete with Aeroflot. Gref is head of the Center for Strategic Studies, which has been tasked with drafting Putin's economic program. According to "The Moscow Times" the next day, Gref is proposing that the Russian government play a larger role in helping consolidate the domestic airline industry and the most likely way of doing this is by merging smaller airlines in which the government holds a ...