#16
Stringer
No. 11-12
November-December 2001
SHAMANOV MAY BECOME PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA
[from WPS Monitoring Agency, www.wps.ru/e_index.html]
Vladimir Putin's latest actions have shown that his foreign policy is aimed at stabilization of relations with the US. This does not appeal to the military-industrial lobby. Many political schemers trying to find out today if Putin will pass the next presidential election and whether it is worthwhile to invest money in some new "project." As is known, Anatoly Chubais once invested his money in the project called "Putin." Recently his structures conducted a research on who may take the presidential seat in 2004. Among the candidates there are many those whose names are not worth mentioning, but there was also one person who was mentioned both by Chubais and Berezovsky. This is Ulyanovsk Governor Vladimir Shamanov. Although he does not look so great without his military uniform, it is not so difficult to make a new one. This report may sound ridiculous, but we know for sure that Chubais funded Shamanov during the election campaign in the Ulyanovsk Region. Leonid Gozman used to bring money for him. We will not say anymore on this topic so far.
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