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"We're in an emergency, I need money: If you do not pay pensions and salaries to soldiers before May Day, as I promised, here anything can happen." Word of Boris Yeltsin. In 1996, Russian President addressed this urgent request for help to President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. The book reveals that is about to publish Mikhail Kasyanov, prime minister in Moscow from 2000 to 2004 and nicknamed "Mr. 2%", note Giulietto Church , "in memory of that percentage, as prime minister of Russia seems to perceive at every deal State.

As should be taken with tongs, add Church, memories Kasyanov 'promised smashed. " He returned to prominence in 2006 as a potential opponent of Vladimir Putin, Kasyanov was defeated along with Garry Kasparov I still have not been able to participate in elections , which was dismissed without ceremony. "The Russian journalists, not unmindful of the recent past - says Giulietto Church - departed in pursuit of sensations, interviewing authors (the book is written for four hands with Evgeny Kiseliov journalist prince of the time) about the relationship between Kasyanov and Putin, who promoted him prime minister and then drove him badly. "

In fact the book seems to deserve more attention in its pages "historical", ie those concerning the events of 1996 when Boris Yeltsin "should" at all costs be re-elected president of Russia , otherwise - it was feared - would return the Communists . The problem, said Kasyanov, who was Yeltsin in the polls "came barely 2%. Himself, then, as always Kasyanov said, "personally turned for help to two Western leaders, Chirac and the German Kohl. Then vice-finance minister, Mikhail Kasyanov was sent on a secret mission to Paris to negotiate the terms of the loan. "It is not clear whether it was exactly that or if it was a gift - adds the Church - to prevent the return of the communists in Russia . "

Chirac and Kohl gave as Boris Yeltsin, under the table, to make him win the election ? Kasyanov apologized to the interviewer: "Try to understand, it's been thirteen years." But then the memory comes back: "We agreed to put a figure roughly 3-5 billion dollars." Broken how? Three and a half billion from Germany , one and a half from France . "When, where and by whom, and how, that debt was paid off by Russia is not shown - observe Giulietto Chiesa - but we know that the French and German were, unknowingly, not the Russians - that they know only now - to keep Boris Yeltsin in power.

So, thanks to that help, the first president of Russia could maintain the democratic promise to pay by the May salaries and wages of civil servants in Russia, left without a ruble in months. In this way, the Church adds, Yeltsin managed to lay the groundwork "for a fraudulent re-election, which was later celebrated by the Western media as a sign that Russia was finally exit from the Dark Ages and entered the West in full sail. " Kasyanov was "rewarded" with promotion to premier in 2000. He served until 2004, "when - remember Giulietto Church - the secret services delivered Russians, it seems, Putin records of his conversation with Boris Nemtsov, then governor of Nizhny Novgorod. "

Contact with Nemtsov, powerful man leading the new "caste" of the oligarchs, presaged a move to the same Putin Kasyanov's presidential armchair. A "conspiracy in the plot, it seems that even disavows Kasyanov: simply say that when Putin dismissed him, not told why. "But its' young memories" (Kasyanov has only 52 years) we still have returned a piece of history of Russia, contemporary, "concludes Giulietto Church . A page of history himself when he was a correspondent for " The Press "from Moscow, could" only partly glimpsed "(info: www.giuliettochiesa.it ).

Yeltsin, THE TRUE STORY - WAS Elected President Boris Yeltsin of Russia in 1996 Because France and Germany Gave 5 HIM substain Milliard Dollars to His Campaign to stop the coming back of Communists. It's what is written in the next book by the former Russian prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov (info: www.giuliettochiesa.it ).