How the Clinton Administration Exported Government Instead of Free Enterprise
Introduction 1
Executive Summary 3
CHAPTER 1
1991: The Fall of the Soviet Union and the Rise of Russia 16
CHAPTER 2
Conditions in Russia at the Outset of the Yeltsin and Clinton Administrations 26
CHAPTER 3
The Task Ahead: Creation of a Free-Enterprise System after a
Century of State Control 38
CHAPTER 4
The Fundamental Flaws of the Clinton Administration's Russia Policy 50
CHAPTER 5
The Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission 70
CHAPTER 6
'Bull****': Gore and Other Administration Policy Makers
Systematically Ignore Evidence of Corruption of Their 'Partners' 78
CHAPTER 7
The Rise of Organized Crime 86
CHAPTER 8
1998: Years of Bad Advice Culminate in Russia's
Total Economic Collapse 100
CHAPTER 9
Weapons Proliferation Feeds a Corrupt and Cash-Starved System 112
CHAPTER 10
From Friendship to Cold Peace: The Decline of US-Russia
Relations During the 1990s 126
CHAPTER 11
'The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend': Russia
Emerges as a Strategic Partner of the People's Republic of China 148
CHAPTER 12
Despite Years of Policy Failure, A Bright Russian Future Is Still Possible 166
Recommendations 177
Index 208
SPEAKER'S ADVISORY GROUP ON RUSSIA
CHRISTOPHER COX, CHAIRMAN
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RUSSIA'S ROAD TO CORRUPTION - How the Clinton Administration Exported
Government Instead of Free Enterprise
and Failed the Russian People -SPEAKER'S ADVISORY GROUP ON RUSSIA
CHRISTOPHER COX, CHAIRMAN
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RUSSIA'S ROAD TO CORRUPTION - How the Clinton Administration Exported
Government Instead of Free Enterprise
and Failed the Russian People -Members of the Speaker's Advisory Group on Russia
United States House of Representatives
106
th
Congress
HON CHRISTOPHER COX, CHAIRMAN
Chairman, House Policy Committee
HON BEN GILMAN
Chairman, Committee on International Relations
HON PORTER GOSS
Chairman, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
HON JIM LEACH
Chairman, Committee on Banking and Financial Services
HON FLOYD SPENCE
Chairman, Committee on Armed Services
HON CW YOUNG
Chairman, Committee on Appropriations
HON TILLIE FOWLER
Vice Chair, House Republican Conference
Member, Committee on Armed Services
HON JIM SAXTON
Vice Chairman, Joint Economic Committee
HON SPENCER BACHUS
Chairman, Banking Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy
HON SONNY CALLAHAN
Chairman, Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
HON CURT WELDON
Chairman, Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Research and Development
Co-Chairman, Duma-Congress Study Group
HON ROGER WICKER
Co-Chairman, House Russian Leadership Program
Member, Foreign Operations Appropriations SubcommitteeUS House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Report Date: September 2000
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Printed in the United States of AmericaIntroduction1
Executive Summary 3
CHAPTER 1
1991: The Fall of the Soviet Union and the Rise of Russia 16
CHAPTER 2
Conditions in Russia at the Outset of the Yeltsin and Clinton Administrations 26
CHAPTER 3
The Task Ahead: Creation of a Free-Enterprise System after a
Century of State Control 38
CHAPTER 4
The Fundamental Flaws of the Clinton Administration's Russia Policy 50
CHAPTER 5
The Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission 70
CHAPTER 6
'Bull****': Gore and Other Administration Policy Makers
Systematically Ignore Evidence of Corruption of Their 'Partners' 78
CHAPTER 7
The Rise of Organized Crime 86
CHAPTER 8
1998: Years of Bad Advice Culminate in Russia's
Total Economic Collapse 100
CHAPTER 9
Weapons Proliferation Feeds a Corrupt and Cash-Starved System 112
CHAPTER 10
From Friendship to Cold Peace: The Decline of US-Russia
Relations During the 1990s 126
CHAPTER 11
'The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend': Russia
Emerges as a Strategic Partner of the People's Republic of China 148
CHAPTER 12
Despite Years of Policy Failure, A Bright Russian Future Is Still Possible 166
Recommendations 177
Index 208
Speaker's Advisory Group on Russia
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