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Pastimes : Ask Mohan about the Market

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To: John Hunt who wrote (16252)8/26/1998 9:05:00 AM
From: John Hunt  Read Replies (1) of 18056
 
Is Yeltsin "Wagging the Dog?"

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<< As Russia's economy crumbles, options for salvaging the situation dwindle, and calls for his ouster intensify, Russian President Boris Yeltsin may be brewing a "Wag the Dog" scenario, in a last ditch effort to save himself. Recent incidents in the Russian republic of Dagestan, which borders on Chechnya, have the Kremlin drumming up a war on Wahhabism in the region. The Wahhabi are a sect of Sunni Islam originating in Saudi Arabia, who have come to be equated with the threat of fundamentalist Islamic militance throughout the former Soviet Union. >>

Taking a lesson from Slick's book of tricks?

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