Yegor Gaidar
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Yegor Timurovich Gaidar was a Soviet and Russian economist, politician, and author who was the acting Prime Minister of Russia in 1992 and simultaneously held several other cabinet roles. Gaidar was a
Gaidar in 1999
Anatoly Chubais (left) and Gaidar at the Russian parliament, on 29 October 1992.
Gaidar during the 1990s.
Gaidar with former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, on 1 May 1996.
In September and October 1993, a constitutional crisis arose in the Russian Federation from a conflict between the then Russian president Boris Yeltsin and the country's parliament. Yeltsin performed
Yegor Gaidar
…September, pledging to fight hyperinflation and to increase protections for private property, and was also the acting minister of economy. During the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, on 3 October, he famously spoke live on Russian television, then broadcasting from an emergency station near Moscow, as there was fighting going on…
The White House in October 1993, soon after the assault of government troops supported by tanks
Yeltsin speaking at a meeting of his supporters on 28 March 1993
Memory action in 2019. The plaque, showing Yeltsin with a bottle of vodka, says "Nothing is forgotten, no one is forgiven".