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Article: Enriching The Old Nomenklatura
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 17, 1994
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In the March 3 For the Record, Secretary of State Warren
Christopher is quoted as saying that 75 percent of U.S. aid to
Russia is going to the private sector.
The secretary's statement is highly misleading.
In fact, the State Department's own analysis of the
implementation of the Vancouver accords shows that $499 million, or
46 percent, of monies expended to date have been in the form of
grain credits. The credits are administered by Exportkhleb, the
former official grain-import agency for the Soviet Union.
Exportkhleb is now technically privatized, but is still largely
government owned and is run by the same bureaucrats who ran it in
the Soviet era.
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