Focusing on government-to-government financial transfers rather than measures that would promote entrepreneurialism, small business, small farms, private ownership, and start-up enterprises and individual Russian republics.

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That is, Congress should hold out the carrot of normalized trade relations and other substantive inducements to those republics that move aggressively to liberalize prices, permit private ownership, massively privatize state-owned enterprises and generally create a workable legal and business framework for entrepreneurial competition as well as allowing for the free movement of their people, goods and capital.

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