Throughout the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States and Russia worked together to implement privatization and other economic reforms. Embassy leadership, and the repercussions of her reporting on relationships with key Russian officials. In her oral history, Ballantyne discusses the consternation this caused with U.S.
Janet Ballantyne, USAID’s mission director, blew the whistle. USAID unearthed a major corruption scandal in Russia in the late 1990s involving Harvard University’s Institute for International Development.
