Word: illarionov
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While some government officials insist such predictions are overly pessimistic, Andrei Illarionov, director of Moscow's Economic Analysis Institute, a reform-minded think tank, told a press conference last week that the coming year would be a tough one for the Russian economy. "What is in store for us," he predicted, "in terms of scale of the problem exceeds what we have faced in the past." Waiting in the wings for just such a doomsday scenario to come to pass are Russia's Communists, who have consoled themselves after defeat in the recent election by predicting that Yeltsin's victory...