Eddie Fishman
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first heard Jun 2026
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He was a very handsome sort of reformer.
And Yeltsin, when he was sort of like, you know, very clearly very sick and dying, he was like, who can I put in as my successor that's just not going to like prosecute my family for corruption and like take away our resources?
And so he elevated this relatively unknown relationship.
deputy mayor of St.
Petersburg, Vladimir Putin, into sort of the Kremlin to be his sort of handpicked successor.
And so Putin inherited the presidency from Yeltsin.
He eventually won an election, but he inherited the presidency at the end of 1999 from Yeltsin because Yeltsin was like, this is sort of the most innocuous successor
But if you think about it, had that not happened, if you just had a free and fair election before Putin had come in and sort of that role, you probably would have gotten a guy like Nemtsov.
The other thing I'll say too, just to give
you know, some folks in the U.S.
government a little bit of credit here because I do think we could have done better policies and I can talk about those.
But, you know, we did bring Russia.
You mentioned the G20.
You know, we have this G7, which is sort of like the close club of U.S.
allies.
Oh, yeah, the G7, sorry.
We brought them into the G8.
And we brought Russia into the World Trade Organization.
And actually, I part of the reason I was sanctioned by Russia in 2014, when Russia first invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea, I was the Russia sanctions lead at the State Department.
So I was the one designing the sanctions and negotiating them with the EU and the G7 to try to put sanctions on Russia back in 2014.
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