Korzhakov

To run the campaign, he picked one of his vice premiers, Oleg Soskovets, a metals industry lobbyist and intimate of the bodyguard Korzhakov.

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In secret negotiations with the Communist leaders, Korzhakov offered them cabinet posts in return for condoning such a postponement.

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Between the rounds, Korzhakov sent the Chubais team into a panic when his men detained two staffers who had been leaving campaign headquarters carrying more than $500,000 in cash.

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Korzhakov had adopted a broad interpretation of his job that included lobbying for particular economic policies, bugging the phones of Kremlin officials, and intervening in personnel decisions.

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To relieve the tension, he turned increasingly to alcohol and the companionship of the military types with whom he felt most at ease—first and foremost, his bodyguard, Aleksandr Korzhakov.

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Korzhakov, the loyal bodyguard who bugged the phones of Kremlin aides to incriminate his colleagues.

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In his memoir, Korzhakov himself gives various examples of his contributions to personnel decisions Boris Yeltsin: ot rassveta do zakata, e.g., 240, 274–75.

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Korzhakov, convinced Yeltsin would lose, tried to persuade him to postpone the election for two years, illegally, while another candidate—preferably Soskovets—could be groomed to run.

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In access to Yeltsin, all the oligarchs together did not come close to equaling that of Korzhakov in 1994–95.

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In March, Korzhakov persuaded Yeltsin to cancel the elections.

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