Tag Archives: Anatoly Chubais
At least they'll admit it
I’ve just spent the last couple of days holed up inside Moscow’s World Trade Center for the Troika Dialog Russia 2010 Forum, an economic conference where I was surprised to hear some refreshing honesty from the Russian political elite who made … Continue reading
Posted in sports, strange, world
Tagged Anatoly Chubais, Black Sea, Moscow, New Year, Prime minister, russia, Sochi, World Trade Center
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Death of a kamikaze
Early this morning, economist and reformer Yegor Gaidar died of a blood clot in his home in the Moscow suburbs. He was 53. What Yeltsin was to political liberalization, Gaidar was to the Russian economy. It was Gaidar who, in … Continue reading
Posted in world
Tagged 1990s, Anatoly Chubais, Boris Yeltsin, Planned economy, russia, Shock therapy, Soviet Union, Yegor Gaidar
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