R G Gidadhubli Abhijil Bhattacharya Having successfully engineered Russia's entry into the IMF Yeltsin has now to do a delicate balancing act to achieve maximum benefits which will satisfy all the conflicting political interests within the country RUSSIA'S formal admission as a member into the IMF on June 1, 1992 is yet another landmark in current history after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union (FSU).