He can no longer go back and forth between the economic reformers and the conservatives.
Analysts regard this as a key victory for Russia's economic reformers over its military hawks.
He says he wants a more developed market, and his team of economic reformers seems to confirm this.
Indeed, just about every political leader these days is declaring himself an economic reformer.
On the one side are democrats, economic reformers and secessionists.
Moscow's most determined opponents of merger were the democrats and economic reformers who lost power last summer.
But Professor Fan's group of economic reformers is on the defensive these days.
"This is a publication that really was a spokesman for the economic reformers," a Western businessman said.
The program moved well beyond what previous Soviet economic "reformers" had attempted.
TO judge by the press reviews, Mexico's economic reformers did everything right.