Laundering Yeltsin.

The Russian Foreign Minister says it's an American plot to keep Russia weak. The head of the KGB-successor agency offers that same conviction in a formal briefing to President Boris Yeltsin. The Kremlin press office compares it to the Spanish Inquisition. It seems that there are good people called reformers who are forcing enlightenment upon Russia. They speak English, and they are eloquent about their desire to build democracy and capitalism. The American headlines about corruption and Russia are revolving around two separate and so far unrelated allegations.