Word: yegor
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...holders, the government is urging Russian citizens not to sell their vouchers for quick cash until after the New Year, when they can begin exchanging them for shares in factories, shops and other properties. "Remember, inflation will devalue the money you get from selling your vouchers," Acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar warned on state television, "but it cannot devalue the property backing them...
Civic Union's avowed aim is to become a "constructive opposition," offering an "alternative program" to the free-market policies pursued by Acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar. In practice, though, its focus is on propping up the aging, inefficient steel mills, tractor works and other state- owned industrial dinosaurs. Gaidar and others insist that they must be allowed to go out of business, despite the immediate pain, if Russia is ever to have an efficient, modern economy. But Civic Union contends that the resulting mass unemployment would simply be too great, and that argument seems to be converting some reformers...
...most Thursdays, President (and Prime Minister) Yeltsin takes his place at the head of the table. The chair on his left is reserved for Vice President Alexander Rutskoi. Gennadi Burbulis, Yeltsin's top political strategist, and First Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, the point man of Russia's economic reforms, sit on the right. The old Politburo table had to be lengthened to seat the 35 ministers in the government and 30 state-committee chairmen. Most of Yeltsin's staff must scramble for chairs along the walls...
...money, however, will not come without strings. In return for the funds, the IMF has called on the republics to institute major economic reforms. Yegor T. Gaidar, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister and chief economic representative, said recognition by the world economic bodies will help speed his country's transition to a market economy. Back home, however, President Boris Yeltsin was trying to assuage fears that Russia is giving up much of its economic independence. "We don't fully agree with the opinions of the IMF," he said, "and we will defend our point of view...
...Reform is working," Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, Yeltsin's chief economic adviser, told Russians last week on television. Then he added, "It is working slowly and badly. We may know better than anyone else how unsteady are these very, very weak signs of stabilization that have taken shape." In a personal appeal published last week in London's Financial Times, Gaidar declared, "Our basic task is this: we must conquer a powerful inflation bequeathed by the old system, while at the same time rapidly introducing market forces and private ownership." Those policies are coming into place, he wrote...