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Fel. Jeltsin skapade sin karriär i Sverdlovsk (Jakterinburg) och valdes in i politbyrån 1985 under Gorbatjovs första tid vid makten, var det också CIA's förtjänst menar du..? Han var en hård kritiker av Gorbatjovs reformer som han tyckte inte gick tillräckligt snabbt och inte tillräckligt långt, och han petades från politbyrån efter det. Han var en folklig politiker som var mycket omtyckt av ryssarna, och det har inte ett dugg med CIA eller USA att göra. Så sluta dra uppdiktade efterkonstruktioner. Putin har för övrigt mycket att tacka Jeltsin för, det var ju Jeltsin som begick misstaget att utse Putin till sin efterträdare.
At least once the hand of the United States reached boldly into a Russian election. American fears that Boris Yeltsin would be defeated for re-election as president in 1996 by an old-fashioned Communist led to an overt and covert effort to help him, urged on by President Bill Clinton. It included an American push for a $10 billion International Monetary Fund loan to Russia four months before the voting and a team of American political consultants (though some Russians scoffed when they took credit for the Yeltsin win).
That heavy-handed intervention made some Americans uneasy. Thomas Carothers, a scholar at the Carnegie Institute for International Peace, recalls arguing with a State Department official who told him at the time, “Yeltsin is democracy in Russia,” to which Mr. Carothers said he replied, “That’s not what democracy means.”
But what does democracy mean? Can it include secretly undermining an authoritarian ruler or helping challengers who embrace democratic values? How about financing civic organizations?
In recent decades, the most visible American presence in foreign politics has been taxpayer-funded groups like the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute, which do not support candidates but teach basic
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/sunday-review/russia-isnt-the-only-one-meddling-in-elections-we-do-it-too.html