Why and how Boris Yeltsin chose a team of Yegor Gaidar in September 1991? In an interview with the editor-in-chief Business FM Ilya Kopelevich and CEO of “Rumedia” Mikhail Berger said one of the key participants in those events, the former Secretary of state of the RSFSR and the first …
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Pensions soon, it seems, many Russians would not. And if in 1990-e years, in conditions of galloping inflation and rising unemployment, many families in the country survived due to pay in time grandma’s or grandpa’s pensions, now forced dependants will have to change the model behavior. The Russians should think …
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The complexity of the economic policy of the Russian government is that this government has a close and uninterrupted continuity with the power of the 90-ies in Yeltsin’s Russia. The government does not want the collapse of the state, i.e. the collapse itself. She tries to stabilize the unstable, prone …
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“Of course, I voted for Yeltsin,” says 44-year-old hairdresser Elena Starkova, which in the day has arrived to Ekaterinburg from a small town Lysva. “Then his coming meant freedom for us and most of the new.” Starkov has gone through the 1990s, which were the decade of President Boris Yeltsin. …
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This month, the last President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev celebrated its 85th anniversary. A month earlier would have turned as much to the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin. The combination of circumstances and events? Not only. The fatal intersection of the lives of these people affected an entire …
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