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To: John Lacelle who wrote (14093)	8/20/1999 11:05:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Chill out! Liquored Boris will soon get bottled in some backstage cellar.... Story: newstatesman.co.uk Excerpt: Kokoshin told me in Moscow recently that Luzhkov was neither anti-western nor anti-capitalist, and that he was the best chance for democracy Russia had. He told me that Luzhkov had spoken out against anti-Semitism, that he had advised against breaking off relations with the west over the Nato intervention in Kosovo, that he had attracted more foreign companies to Moscow than all the other cities in the former Soviet Union combined and that he favoured an alliance with Grigory Yavlinsky and his party Yabloko - the only significant liberal political force left in the Duma, or in Russian politics. All of this is true, or partly true. Luzhkov, who spent some time in 1998 trying to woo a nervous Tony Blair - he went so far as to attend the Labour Party conference and to call himself an aficionado of the Third Way - now appeals more and more to western governmental and business circles. A sizeable and quite powerful pro-Luzhkov lobby now exists in Washington; and at a meeting recently in the City with analysts, I was told that he looked to them like a man with whom they could do business. [...] Luzhkov for President?