There should be no waiver of the Stevenson amendment which effectively caps U.S. subsidizedcredits to the Soviet Union for oil and gas exploration and development.
The Center has long viewed taxpayer-subsidized credits to Moscow as an imprudent liability and strategic mistake prior to systemic economic reform and free and fair national elections in the USSR.
In particular, some seem to believe that the absence of strict control over the money supply notably the hemorrhaging of subsidizedcredits to bankrupt state-owned industries (read the military-industrial complex) is accepted by the Russian government as the single greatest obstacle to true structural change and that corrective action is in the offing.