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By Vladimir Radyuhin
MOSCOW, MARCH 18. Police detained a retired army officer in connection with the assassination attempt on the architect of Russia's privatisation programme of the 1990s, Anatoly Chubais. Mr. Chubais, former Deputy Prime Minister who now heads Russia's electricity monopoly, survived a bomb attack on Thursday as he was being driven to work from his dacha in a suburb of Moscow. Mr. Vladimir Kvachyov, a 57-year-old former explosive and sabotage expert of the elite military intelligence service, GRU, who was wounded in the Afghan war, was apprehended later on Thursday on suspicion of involvement in the attack after police tracked down what they believed was a getaway car. Police said they were working on several theories of the attack motive, including revenge for the radical pro-market reforms Mr. Chubais helped mastermind under the former President, Boris Yeltsin. Opinion polls singled out Mr. Chubais as Russia's most hated politician of the 1990s for his role in a massive sell-off of state assets to a handful of Kremlin-connected "oligarchs" that plunged ordinary people into poverty. Army veterans were among Russian retirees also hit by a social security reform earlier this year that Russian liberals led by Mr. Chubais supported.
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