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Wayne Merry Dissent Channel Cable from American Embassy Moscow to Secretary of State, “Whose Russia is it Anyway? Toward a Policy of Benign Respect” | National Security Archive
This cable, written by Wayne Merry as a Dissent Channel message, reminds one of the famous Long Telegram written by George Kennan in 1946 in its analytical power and predictive precision. He expresses his disapproval of the U.S. attempts to impose its vision of radical economic reform on an unwilling Russia. The cable analyzes Russian political landscape after the Duma elections of December 1993, where, in Merry’s description, “the radicals lost a general election, lost it badly, and lost it fair and square.” He gives vivid portraits of leading Russian economic reformers Yegor Gaidar and Boris Fedorov, explains the success of anti-Yeltsin forces, the pain of reforms, and the growing “frustration tonged with animosity” toward the West on the part of the population. Merry warns his government that if the present U.S. policy to Russia continues, it will “assist Russian extremists to undermine the country’s nascent democracy and will encourage a renewal of Russia’s adversarial stance toward the outside world.”