That's a strawman. Those 3 PR clowns and another British consultant weren't working for the US government and didn't do anything useful for Yeltsin anyway, Fila

That's a strawman. Those 3 PR clowns and another British consultant weren't working for the US government and didn't do anything useful for Yeltsin anyway, Filatov basically carried the campaign on his own (not without the huge amount French/German loan money stolen by Yeltsin and paid to the Gusinsky and co). The actual US involvement was in lots of the NGO work, openly sold under the guise of the fight against the communist reaction, paid with US taxpayers money. Which it actually was! No argument against that, Zyuganov and the return of communism/nomenklatura were genuine threats. The only problem was that people now wanted Yeltsin out because he was even worse. Clinton/Gore administration openly aligned themselves with Yeltsin/Chernomyrdin, their "friendship" with the autocrat was a big and visible thing. They ignored all the red flags and helped to create the problem they tried to "fight" later, despite of the existence of much more prominent politicians who were clean and principled enough (ex. Nemtsov, who was hugely popular before that campaign and publicly declined to run for the president when he heard about Clinton's support for Yeltsin). Regardless of the extent of the actual involvement (it was probably not that strong), it was enough for many in Russia to despise them and call it a collusion, which it at least partly was - absolutely open and marketed as something noble, without any conspiracy. Denying that is silly.