These individuals -- such as Civic Union's chairman, Arkady Volsky -- have long been closely associated with the military-industrial complex.

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Volsky has emerged in recent months as the real power behind efforts to sabotage genuine and irreversible market and political reform in Russia.

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In all probability though, the invisible man behind the currency crisis may well be someone whose name has not yet surfaced Arkady Volsky , the de facto head of the nationalist-communist consortium known as Civic Union.

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