Bill Clinton: “Well, what they talked about today was--first of all, we have quite a large plan. We've got to dislodge some of the…”

“Well, what they talked about today was--first of all, we have quite a large plan. We've got to dislodge some of the money that we've committed that was tied up in the international institutions. They all believe that we needed a combination of two things: We need to try to speed up the privatization, because in the end that was the real guarantor of reform--and Russia has done a phenomenal job of privatizing industries, thousands just in the last year--and secondly, that we needed some sort of social support network, an unemployment system, a retraining system, a system to train people to manage and operate businesses and banks that will enable people to deal with the dislocations that are coming. And that's basically what we talked about.”