Monday, 05 January 2004

IDEOLOGUE OF ANTI-OLIGARCH CAMPAIGN CALLS FOR STRATEGY OF \'NATIONAL REVENGE\'

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Russian National Strategy Council Director Stanislav Belkovskii in separate interviews with RosBalt on 24 December and \"Zavtra,\" No. 52, said the main goal for President Vladimir Putin in 2004 will be to present the country with a new political course, which could be called \"the strategy of Russian national revenge in all possible forms.\" Belkovskii, who is widely believed to have foreshadowed the campaign in recent months against the oligarchs with his analytical reports last summer stated that the essence of the new course \"will be to put an end to the epoch [of former President Boris Yeltsin] and to bring to power a new anti-Yeltsin elite.
Russian National Strategy Council Director Stanislav Belkovskii in separate interviews with RosBalt on 24 December and \"Zavtra,\" No. 52, said the main goal for President Vladimir Putin in 2004 will be to present the country with a new political course, which could be called \"the strategy of Russian national revenge in all possible forms.\" Belkovskii, who is widely believed to have foreshadowed the campaign in recent months against the oligarchs with his analytical reports last summer stated that the essence of the new course \"will be to put an end to the epoch [of former President Boris Yeltsin] and to bring to power a new anti-Yeltsin elite.\" Putin also should announce that the only way for Russia to prosper in the 21st century is through its complete domination of the \"post-Soviet space,\" which is \"its historical-geographical area.\" To this end, Russia should invest enormous economic and military means into the restoration and support of pro-Russian elites in the former Soviet republics, Belkovskii said. (RFE/RL)
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