The Oligarchs (102 page)

Poverty: health care and; hyperinflation impact on population

Power: Berezovsky on; Chubais on Graham's essay; Gusinsky and; of television; tycoons and; Waller on.
See also
Oligarchy

Pricing, prices: cash auctions of state retail outlets and; free market vs. socialist industrial indicators; Gaidar and; oil and; privatization voucher trading and; vs. shortages; oil extraction companies and; Yeltsin and.
See also
Privatization vouchers

Primakov, Igor; computers and

Primakov, Yevgeny, appointed foreign minister; appointed prime minister; vs. Berezovsky; fired by Yeltsin and replaced by Stepashin; creates alliance with Luzhkov; subject of Dorenko smear

Printing; Smolensky and

Private property: Chubais and; Luzhkov and; Naishul and; Naishul vs. Gaidar; vs. the Soviet mind-set

Privatization: Chubais vs. theft of state property; freedom and; of money; Naishul and; Naishul vs. Gaidar; Ostankino television; Piyasheva plan; spontaneous; by Systema; Vasiliev on; Yeltsin referendum on reforms.
See also
Auctions of state property; Chubais privatization; Economic reform; Factory privatization; Industry privatization; Loans for shares

Privatization vouchers auctions and Jordan and; Khodorkovsky and; mutual funds Western advisors and

Privatizatzia
(Chubais)

Prokhorov, Mikhail

Promstroibank

Putin, Vladimir; appointed prime minister; appointed to presidency; vs. Berezovsky; Berezovsky and; vs. Chechens; Chechen War and Chubais and; democracy and; vs. Dorenko; elected to presidency; vs. Gusinsky; Russian governors and; television and

Pyramid scams; absence of government regulation and

Radical democrats: in Moscow; Chubais and Leningrad; the
khozyain
in Moscow and; win the majority of seats in the Mossovet

Ravenskikh, Boris

Reklama Holding

Remnick, David

Renaissance Capital

Research: business and the Komsomol; Luzhkov self-financing idea; Institute of High Temperatures; Leningrad Engineering Economic Institute; NTTMs and; socialist economics and.
See also
Science

Riggs National Bank of Washington

Road to Serfdom, The
(Hayek)

Rock music: Avia; the Beatles; vs. Chernenko; Televisor; Time Machine

Rogozin, Georgi

Rosneft

Rozhetskin, Leonid

Rudloff, Hans-Joerg

Russian Finance Ministry Bank Menatep and;
guarantees Exim Bank loan to Gusinsky issues MinFin bonds.
See also
GKOs; Government bonds

Russian Orthodox Church

Russian people, the: attitude toward private property and bribery and; cooperatives and; crash of ‘98 and SBS-Agro depositors; crash of ‘98 and the middle class; exhorted to get rich; health care and; inflation and pyramid scams; privatization vouchers and; seek scapegoats for the crash of ‘98 and state care of; distrust of the peasantry in Soviet times.
See also
Moscow; Society; Youth

Russian Raw Materials and Commodity Exchange

Russian Securities Commission: Chernomyrdin creates; vs. Goldman Sachs; Vasiliev resigns; and weak power of

Ryan, Charles

Rybkin, Ivan

Saikin, Valery

Salomon Brothers

Samaraneftegaz oil extraction company; Khodorkovsky and losses (1996)

Savostyanov, Yevgeny

SBS-Agro bank: floats Eurobond; Smolensky forms

SBS-Agro bank, crash of ‘98; Central Bank stabilization loans and; depositors and

Schekochikhin, Yuri

Science: Chubais and economic research; Foundation of Youth Initiative; Institute of Control Sciences; Jews and; Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology; NTTMs and; politics and;
vnedrenie
and.
See also
Economics; Technology

Securities: absence of market regulation and; Berezovsky bearer certificate scheme; Mavrodi bearer certificate scheme.
See also
GKOs; Government bonds; Russian Securities Commission

Security services: Berezovsky; businessmen; Gusinsky; Khodorkovsky; Korzhakov and Yeltsin; Putin

Self-financing: factories and Luzhkov plan; Khodorkovsky and; the Komsomol and

Sevodnya
; bankers' war and; closes; first appears

Sevodnya Press

Shadow economy: car parts and; cooperatives and; the
svyazi
network

Shakhnovsky, Vasily; Club on Sparrow Hills and

Sheindlin, Alexander

Shleifer, Andrei

Shneider, Mikhail

Shortages: the
blat
network and; car parts; construction and; factories and; vs. free markets; vs. Gorbachev; Gosplan and; grain; vs. price liberalization; stores and; vegetable bases and

Sibneft oil company

Sidanco oil company

Sinyavsky, Andrei

Skuratov, Yuri

Smith, Adam

Smolensky, Alexander; avisos and; banking empire; Berezovsky and Bibles and buys Agroprombank; capital assets and; capital flight and; Cathedral of Christ the Savior and; Chubais and closes SBS-Agro and slips from view; Club on Sparrow Hills and; as a construction boss; currency speculation; distrust of the state and; establishes Moskva–3; foreign loans to; Kiriyenko default moratorium and; loans for shares and; loans to farmers and; as a printer; protocapitalism and; starts
Bank Stolichny; the state and; Yeltsin and; youth.
See also
Bank Stolichny; SBS-Agro

Smuggling; Bibles

Sobchak, Anatoly

Socialism: and bankers; capitalism vs. Gosplan and; disenchantment of youth with; economic research and; vs. Hayek; hoarding food and; period of
marazm
; stealing and;
vnedrenie
and

Society: Berezovsky on; cash auctions of state property and; entrepreneurship and; journalists and; the middle class and devaluation of the ruble; the middle class and Gusinsky.
See also
Moscow; Russian people, the

Solnick, Steven L.

Solovyova, Valentina

Soros, George; bankers' war and; Berezovsky and; letter to the
Financial Times
and; philanthropy of; Svyazinvest auction and

Soskovyets, Oleg; Yeltsin reelection campaign and

South Korea

Sovershenno Sekretno,
newspaper

Soviet Cultural Foundation

Soviet Union; alcoholism; vs. the Beatles; Central Committee vs. art; doubts in West about Gorbachev; financial system; gas and oil fields; Gosplan vs. the supply and demand market system; vs. rock music

Stalin, Joseph; destruction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior

State, the: Avtovaz and; banking system under Gorbachev; as the biggest source of capital; books deemed subversive 78; care of the people and; city transport vs. private enterprise; cooperative banks and government ministries; distrust of the peasantry and; Gaidar vs. Naishul privatization plan and; vs. individual commercial activity; institutions and market economy; vs. Jews; NTTMs and; paternalism, distribution of resources and; privatization and theft of property of; reliance on authorized banks as substitutes for a central treasury; shortages and stores of; Smolensky and; television Channel 1 (Ostankino); television channels; vs. tycoons; weak state and rule of law.
See also
Auctions of state property; Central planning; Privatization

State Committee on Science and Technology

State Institute for the Study of Theatrical Arts

State Planning Committee

State Property Committee; loans for shares and

Stepashin, Sergei

Stock market: boom of ‘97; Yukos trading halted on the Russian Trading System

Stocks: Avtovaz; Khodorkovsky offers shares in Bank Menatep; Naishul and privatization; offshore networks and share dilution; oil and foreign investors.
See also
Loans for shares; Securities

Stores; in Hungary; Luzhkov and; military;
raspredelenie
and; vegetable bases and

Streletsky, Valery

Sucher, Bernie

Supreme Soviet of Russia; approves Chubais' privatization law; inflation and; journalists and

Surgutneftegaz

Surkov, Vladislav

Svyazinvest.
See
Auctions of state property, Svyazinvest

Systema

Tarpischev, Shamil

Tatum, Paul

Taxes; barter economy and Chubais and Moscow and

Telecommunications Svyazinvest; Systema.
See also
Auctions of state property, Svyazinvest

Telefonica SA

Television; Center TV; crash of ‘98 and; Dobrodeyev and; Dorenko and; NTV goes on the air; and power of; Putin and; vs. Yeltsin; Yeltsin reelection campaign and.
See also
NTV; ORT; Ostankino

Television advertising: AVVA certificates; Bank Menatep; capitalism new vocabulary and; crash of ‘98 and; MMM; Moscow; NTV; ORT; Ostankino (Channel 1); privatization vouchers and Chubais Yeltsin reelection campaign and

Tikhonov, Vladimir

Timofeyev, Lev

Togliatti; criminal wars

Tokobank

Tomskneft oil extraction company

Trading companies; Interos; offshore, Khodorkovsky and

Transfer pricing

Tretyakov, Vitaly

Trusova, Vera

Tsereteli, Zurab

Tula State Dramatic Theater

U.S.S.R.
See
Soviet Union

Ulyukaev, Alexei

Uneximbank; Chubais-Kokh book scandal and; created; and Customs service accounts; dollar-forwards and; International Bank for Economic Cooperation and

Unified Energy Systems crash of ‘98 and foreign investment

United States: Chubais visit; Gorbachev and; Gusinsky tour

United States Treasury

Vasiliev, Dmitri; advises Chubais on privatization; becomes chairman of the securities commission; vs. Goldman Sachs; vs. Khodorkovsky; loans for shares and; resigns from commission; as securities regulator; on Yeltsin second term

Vasiliev, Sergei

Vegetable bases: central planning and; Luzhkov vs. spoilage

Venediktov, Alexei

Video International

Vinogradov, Vladimir; Club on Sparrow Hills and; devaluation of the ruble and; Lebed and; on Yeltsin reelection campaign financing; Yeltsin and.
See also
Inkombank

Vladislavlev, Alexander

Voloshin, Alexander vs. Gusinsky

Volsky, Arkady

Waller, Glen

Wealth: Berezovsky and; loans for shares and; politics and tycoons; the Russian people and.
See also
Oligarchy; Tycoons

Wealth of Nations, The
(Smith)

West LB bank (Germany)

World Bank

World Economic Forum

Yakovlev, Vladimir

Yarmagaev, Yuri

Yefanov, Alexander

Yeltsin, Boris: announces privatization voucher scheme; arrives in Moscow; bankers' war and; vs. Berezovsky; Berezovsky and Berezovsky on; Cathedral of Christ the Savior and; vs. Chubais; Chubais-Kokh book scandal and; Communists attempt to impeach; consents to the devaluation of the ruble; coup against Gorbachev and; vs. devaluation of the ruble; economics and; elected chairman of the parliament (1990); elections of ‘96 and; fires Chernomyrdin; fires Kiriyenko; fires Korzhakov; Gaidar brain trust and
vs. Gorbachev; vs. Gusinsky; health and; heart surgery; Korzhakov and; leaves Soviet Communist Party; vs. Lebed; vs. Luzhkov; Luzhkov and; MMM; meets oligarchs; and Popov; privatization of oil companies and; privatizes television Channel vs.
raspredelenie
; reappoints Chernomyrdin briefly after crisis; referendum on reforms; replaces Primakov with Stepashin; replaces Stepashin with Putin; resigns from presidency and appoints Putin; signs presidential decree for NTV

Yeltsin, daughter Tatyana Dyachenko; Yeltsin reelection campaign and

Yeltsin reelection campaign (1996): arrest of Chubais campaign staff and Berezovsky and; black propaganda; budget; Chubais and; Chubais vs. Korzhakov; and financing of; first-round vote; Luzhkov and; polls; second-round vote; television advertising and; Yeltsin's health and; and Yeltsin plan to abandon

Yevstafiev, Arkady; Yeltsin reelection campaign and

Yevtushenkov, Vladimir Systema's holdings

Youth: the
dvor
and; film and; pop culture vs. Soviet ideology; rock music vs. authority; Yeltsin reelection campaign and.
See also
Komsomol, the

Youth science centers (NTTMs)

Yuganskneftegaz oil extraction company vs. Khodorkovsky losses (1996)

Yukos oil company; cash value (2000); Dart vs. Khodorkovsky; Khodorkovsky buys majority control; Khodorkovsky buys partial control; merger with Sibneft announced; merger with Sibneft falls apart; profit (1996) share value; statistics; trading halted on the Russian Trading System

Yumashev, Valentin; Berezovsky and; Yeltsin reelection campaign and

Yurchak, Alexei

Zaslavskaya, Tatyana

Zatulin, Konstantin

Zhiguli; Berezovsky consignment deal; criminal wars over and distribution of; false exports of

Zhiltsotsbank

Zibarev, Alexander

Zil truck factory

Zlatkis, Bella; vs. Berezovsky

Zverev, Sergei

Zyuganov, Gennady; vs. Chubais; vs. Jewish bankers; at the World Economic Forum

Zyuganov election campaign (1996); vs.
Nezavisimaya Gazeta
and