The prime minister's chief rival argued for a "big bang"-style transformation that would remove affirmative action and replace it with a more-inclusive welfare system, along with immediately freeing up the country's heavily state-influenced media.

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Along with the financing come Wahhabi clerics, textbooks and other materials and the transformation of religious schools into Saudi-style madrassas.

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Washington has had the naive notion that shoveling money at Russia will somehow bring about its transformation to a free-market, Western-style democracy.

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