Loans for shares scheme

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Beginning in 1995, Boris Yeltsin's government began privatizing state-owned shares in companies through a loans for shares scheme.^[1] The scheme helped with "fundraising" for Yeltsin's 1996 reelection campaign and restructuring freshly-sold companies at the same time (in order to outweigh communist sympathizers as one source speculated).

Russian bankers constituted the majority of those who have provided the funds^{[clarification needed]} (see Letter of thirteen [ru]). The rest included such entities as Stolichny bank (Russian: Столичный банк) and World Bank (who made a loan for a small percentage of the Sibneft oil company) and even some targeted investments from USAID in assistance to Chubais.^{[2][note 1]}

The scheme was primarily overseen by Anatoly Chubais who was linked to USAID program managed by head of the Harvard Institute for International Development (H.I.I.D). at the time.^[3][2]

The scheme implementation ultimately resulted in the emergence of an influential class of enterprise owners, known as Russian oligarchs.

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