Yegor Gaidar

Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia by Yegor Gaidar, Antonina W. Bouis (4) Buy new: $19.77 30 used & new from $14.54 (Ranking is updated hourly. Visit the Most Gifted in Russia list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description In today's Russia, nostalgia for the Soviet era is growing. Many Russians reflect wistfully on the passing of an era when the Soviet Union was a superpower, commanding international respect, and they blame its demise...Read Full Story

Departing from tradition, both Yegor Gaidar, former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, and Karl Otto Pöhl, former Chairman of the German Bundesbank, were invited to give the 1993 Lionel Robbins Lectures. The experiences of each author reflect the vast economic changes spreading across Europe—economic reform in the East and growing economic integration in the West. Gaidar helped launch Russian economic reforms in 1992; Pöhl fought the hyperinflation in Europe of the 1970s and 1980s and...Read Full Story

Russian economist Yegor Gaidar, the architect of the "shock therapy" economic reform that aimed to swiftly transform Russia into a market economy, died Wednesday aged 53, his spokesman said. The former prime minister was a leading reformer in the government of president Boris Yeltsin but his policies were largely reviled by the Russian public who blamed him for the economic hardship they caused. Gaidar died at 3:00 am (midnight GMT) while at work on a book, spokesman Valery Natarov told AFP...Read Full Story

Yegor Gaidar, an economic reformer who served as Russia's acting prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, died Wednesday, his aide said. He was 53. Gaidar's aide Valery Natarov told The Associated Press that Gaidar died unexpectedly, early Wednesday, at his Moscow-region home while he was working on a book. Gaidar died of a a blood clot, Natarov said. No other details were immediately available. Gaidar served under Yeltsin in the early 1990s and navigated the country through its painful post...Read Full Story

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Yegor Gaidar, the architect of the market reforms that helped cement Russia's transition from Communism, died on Wednesday. He was 53. Gaidar, an economist who became late President Boris Yeltsin's reform commissar, provoked awe and antipathy for freeing prices in 1992 before the dust had settled on the ruins of the Soviet Union. Gaidar's reforms -- dubbed "shock therapy" -- devalued the savings of millions of Russians and gave a handful of "oligarchs" their chance to grab...Read Full Story

Russian economist Yegor Gaidar, mastermind of the controversial "shock therapy" economic reforms implemented under former president Boris Yeltsin, died Wednesday aged 53, his spokesman told AFP. Gaidar died at 3:00 am (midnight GMT) while at work on a book, spokesman Valery Natarov told AFP, giving the cause of death as complications arising from a blood clot. Gaidar, who also briefly served as Russian prime minister in the early 1990s, was the architect of the economic reform aimed at...Read Full Story

MOSCOW (AFP) -- Russian economist Yegor Gaidar, the architect of the "shock therapy" economic reform that aimed to swiftly transform Russia into a market economy, died Wednesday aged 53, his spokesman said. The former prime minister was a leading reformer in the government of president Boris Yeltsin but his policies were largely reviled by the Russian public who blamed him for the economic hardship they caused. Gaidar died at 3:00 am (midnight GMT) while at work on a book, spokesman Valery...Read Full Story

MOSCOW (AFP) -- Russian economist Yegor Gaidar, mastermind of the controversial "shock therapy" economic reforms implemented under former president Boris Yeltsin, died Wednesday aged 53, his spokesman told AFP. Gaidar died at 3:00 am (midnight GMT) while at work on a book, spokesman Valery Natarov told AFP, giving the cause of death as complications arising from a blood clot. Gaidar, who also briefly served as Russian prime minister in the early 1990s, was the architect of the economic reform...Read Full Story

Yegor Gaidar, who liberalized the Russian economy in 1992 in what was then called "shock therapy," has died. You can read his obituary published in The Economist magazine HERE . As referenced at the end of this piece, he was last in the international news a few years ago when he claimed to have been mysteriously poisoned in Ireland in the wake of the poisoning (with polonium 210) of Alexander Litvinenko in London in November 2006. Like Litvinenko, he had become an increasingly virulent critic...Read Full Story

Yegor Gaidar, former Russian prime minister and one of the leading architects of free market reforms in post-Soviet Russia, has died at the age of 53, his aide said Wednesday. "Yegor Gaidar has died, I cannot currently give any more details," Gennady Volkov said. Gaidar served as prime minister in the second half of 1992. People criticised him for the hardships caused by his "shock therapy" policy to move Russia from the Soviet planned economy to free-market capitalism. Last updated...Read Full Story