Russia's Road to Corruption

How the Clinton Administration Exported Government Instead of Free Enterprise and Failed the Russian People.

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Speaker's Advisory Group on Russia

Christopher Cox, Chairman United States House of Representatives 106th Congress

Russia's new constitution, written by Yeltsin's team, was narrowly approved in December 1993. Yet even after Russians elected the 1993 and 1995 State Dumas under the Constitution written by Yeltsin, the Clinton administration continued to ignore the newly elected members of the Russian legislature. The consistent excuse they provided for this was that the 1993 and 1995 Dumas, too, were "Communist-dominated." In fact, the most consistent opposition to the Yeltsin regime came not from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, or even from Vladimir Zhirinovsky's ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, but from the pro-democracy, pro-reform Yabloko party.

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Report Date: September 2000

Speech of the Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction Sergei Ivanenko in the State Duma on establishing an independent commission to investigate the accident with the «Kursk» submarine

Respected Deputies, A group of deputies representing the factions Yabloko, the SPS, “Fatherland – All Russia” and the deputies’ group “Russia’s Regions” hereby submits a draft resolution on establishing a special parliamentary commission to investigate developments with the «Kursk» submarine. We insist on the foundation of an independent public deputies’ commission to investigate the circumstances behind the death of our sailors.

Yabloko bloc gets lift from alliance.

By EKATERINA LARINA , The Russia Journal

Semptember 6, 1999

The recently formed alliance of Sergei Stepashin and Grigory Yavlinsky may be a rare case of a political compromise in which the gains for those involved greatly outweigh the concessions, pollsters, analysts and politicians say

Russia: Television Smears Yavlinsky Before Vote

In the final week before the presidential election, Russian public television conducted a campaign to discredit presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky. The smear tactics are the more surprising as Yavlinsky posed little threat to the overwhelming favorite, acting President Vladimir Putin. RFE/RL's Laura Belin reports.