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Bartlett Naylor, a policy advocate at Public Citizen, a consumer rights group, called the derivatives letter “troubling,” adding that Ms. Waters “needn’t add her voice to the cacophony from antireform Wall Street apologists.”

From New York Times • May 11, 2013

"We are going to be at parity with the other guys in spending for the week," said one pro-reform organizer, who had been monitoring the antireform ad purchases.

From Time • Mar. 16, 2010

After talking with Chubais, Yeltsin announced that he was firing Korzhakov, Barsukov and First Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets, the overseer of the military-industrial complex and reputed godfather of the antireform cabal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Russia made good progress on privatization in 1993 despite active opposition from key cabinet members, hard-line legislators, and antireform regional leaders.

From The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency