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Encyclopedia > Yegor Gaidar
Yegor Timurovich Gaidar
Yegor Gaidar
In office
June 15, 1992 – December 14, 1992
President Boris Yeltsin
Preceded by Boris Yeltsin
Succeeded by Viktor Chernomyrdin
Born March 19, 1956 (age 50)
Political party Union of Right Forces

Yegor Timurovich Gaidar (Его́р Тиму́рович Гайда́р) (born March 19, 1956) is a Russian economist and politician, and was the acting Prime Minister of Russia from June 15, 1992 to December 14, 1992. He is the grandson of famous Soviet writers Arkady Gaidar (on the side of his father, Rear Admiral Timur Gaidar) and of Pavel Bazhov (on his mother's side). This work is copyrighted. ... The Prime Minister of Russia is the current Head of Government of the Russian Federation. ... June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Yeltsin redirects here. ... Yeltsin redirects here. ... Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin (Russian: Ви́ктор Степа́нович Черномы́рдин) (born April 9, 1938) is a Russian politician. ... March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Union of Right Forces, or SPS (Сою́з Пра́вых Сил, СПС/Soyuz Pravykh Sil), is a Russian political party commonly associated with free market reforms, privatization, and the legacy of the Young Reformers of the 1990s: Anatoly Chubais, Boris Nemtsov, and Yegor Gaidar. ... March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Prime Minister of Russia is the current Head of Government of the Russian Federation. ... June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Arkady Petrovich Golikov (, in Russian) (1. ... Pavel Bazhov (Russian: Павел Петрович Бажов,1879-1950) - famous Russian writer, the author of fairy-tale stories The Malachite Casket-Tales from the Urals. ...

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Professional life

Gaidar graduated with honors from the Moscow State University, Department of Economics, in 1978 and worked as a researcher in several academic institutes. A long-time member of the Communist Party and an editor of the CPSU ideological journal Communist during the perestroyka, he turned a liberal during the time of Yeltsin's reforms. In 1991 he quit the Communist Party and joined Yeltsin's government. Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian: Московский государственный университет имени Ðœ.Ð’.Ломоносова, often abbreviated МГУ, MSU, MGU) is the largest and the oldest university in Russia, founded in 1755. ... In modern usage, the term communist party is generally used to identify any political party which has adopted communist ideology. ... The Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за = &#1050... Poster showing Mikhail Gorbachev Perestroika ( , Russian: ) is the Russian word (which passed into English) for the economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. ... Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (b. ...


While in government, Gaidar advocated liberal economic reforms according to the principle of shock therapy. His most well-known decision was to abolish price regulation by the state, which immediately resulted in a major increase of prices and amounted to officially authorizing a market economy in Russia. He also cut military procurement and industrial subsidies, and reduced the budget deficit. Gaidar was the Minister of Economic Development from 1991 until 1992, and Minister of Finance from February 1992 until April 1992. In economics, shock therapy refers to the sudden release of price and currency controls, withdrawal of state subsidies, and immediate trade liberalization within a country. ... It has been suggested that Free market be merged into this article or section. ...


He was appointed acting Prime Minister under President Boris Yeltsin in 1992 from June 15 until December 14, when the anti-Yeltsin Congress of People's Deputies refused to confirm him in this position and chose instead the seemingly more conservative Viktor Chernomyrdin. Gaidar was also the First Deputy Prime Minister from 1991 until 1992 and again from September 1993 until January 1994. The Prime Minister of Russia is the current Head of Government of the Russian Federation. ... Yeltsin redirects here. ... June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Congress of Soviets was the supreme governing body of the RSFSR and the USSR in two periods, from 1917 to 1936 and from 1989 to 1991. ... Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin (Russian: Ви́ктор Степа́нович Черномы́рдин) (born April 9, 1938) is a Russian politician. ...


After 1994

Later in 1994, after leaving the government, he became a founding member and chairman of the Democratic Choice of Russia party. In 1999, he became a founding member and co-chairman, along with his longtime political ally Anatoly Chubais of the Union of Right Forces. He served as a deputy of the State Duma from 1999 to 2003. In 2001 the Democratic Choice Party merged into the Union of Right Forces. After URF's failure to regain seats in the parliament in 2003, Gaidar gradually retired from public political activities, concentrating on research in economics. The Democratic Choice of Russia is a Russian political party that was founded by former acting prime minister (1992) Yegor Gaidar. ... Anatoly Chubais. ... The Union of Right Forces, or SPS (Сою́з Пра́вых Сил, СПС/Soyuz Pravykh Sil), is a Russian political party commonly associated with free market reforms, privatization, and the legacy of the Young Reformers of the 1990s: Anatoly Chubais, Boris Nemtsov, and Yegor Gaidar. ... For other uses, see State Duma (disambiguation). ...


Yegor Gaidar has over 100 publications in Australia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary,Ireland, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Taiwan, UK, USA, and by international institutions.


Yegor Gaidar just published a new book, "Lasting time. Russia in the World." (Russian) where he criticized the economic policies of Putin's administration. In this book, he completed a meticulous analysis of the close relationship between the energy prices and political events in Russia. He justified that one of main reasons behind the Soviet Union's fall was the low price of oil. Prices were also low during Yeltsin's rule, which was a serious problem that made political and economic reforms in the country very difficult. According to Gaidar, it is wrong to rely only on oil and gas (as the current Russian government is doing), as it creates only a false impression of prosperity and stability in the country. He argued that a lot more must be done to promote real economic development.


Positions held

  • Director of the Institute for the Economy in Transition www.iet.ru
  • Executive Vice-President of the International Democratic Union (Conservative International)
  • Steering Committee member "Arrabida Meetings" (Portugal)
  • Member of the Baltic Sea Cooperation Council under the Prime-Minister of Sweden
  • Member of the Editorial Board of "Vestnik Evropy" (Moscow)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the "Acta Oeconomica" (Budapest)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the CASE Foundation (Warsaw)

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Honorary positions

  • Honorary Professor, University of California, Berkeley.
  • Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecturer, Duke University
  • Honorary Academy member of the Ukrainian Academy of Management
  • Honorary Director, Russia- Ukraine Institute for Personnel and Management

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2006 illness

On November 28, 2006, Yegor Gaidar was found unconscious in County Kildare, Ireland where he had been presenting his new book Lasting Time: Russia in the World. He was taken to a Dublin hospital and doctors say there is no serious threat to his health. There have been suspicions of a poisoning but Gaidar and his close ally Anatoly Chubais have refrained from accusing the Russian Security Service.[1] November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Anatoly Chubais. ... Emblem of FSB The FSB (ФСБ) is a state security organization in Russia, and is the domestic successor organization to the KGB. Its name is an acronym from the Russian Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Росси́йской Федера́ции) (Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoi Federatsii). ...


On December 6, 2006, Gaidar claimed in an op-ed published in both Russian-language and English-language publications, that he was poisoned by adversaries of the Russian authorities. He did not elaborate on who these adversaries may be. December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...


References

  1. ^ Second Russian in poison mystery, November 29, 2006

November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

External links

  • Yegor Gaidar's Project Syndicate op/eds
  • Yegor Gaidar's home page
Preceded by
Boris Yeltsin		 Acting Prime Minister of Russia
1992		 Succeeded by
Viktor Chernomyrdin
Prime Ministers of Russia since 1990
Ivan Silayev • Oleg Lobov* • Boris Yeltsin • Yegor Gaidar* • Viktor Chernomyrdin • Boris Yeltsin* • Sergei Kiriyenko • Viktor Chernomyrdin* • Yevgeny Primakov • Sergei Stepashin • Vladimir Putin • Mikhail Kasyanov • Viktor Khristenko* • Mikhail Fradkov
* denotes acting

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Egor Gaidar as a Marxist (4113 words)
Gaidar reduces the choice of economic models in post-revolutionary Russia to “the alternative of state or private accumulation” (303), which is indeed a very superficial explanation that distorts the depth of the Soviet drama.
Gaidar does not refer to the public, which tolerated the lines in the early 1980s, as well as the drastic decline in the standard of living and the confiscation of their savings in 1992-1995 and in 1998.
Gaidar could bring only one example that is supposedly in favor of his theory: the chairman of the Union of Soviet writers had in 1986 a fortune, about 14 million rubles (124), evidently made from the honorariums he received for his numerous novels.
Commanding Heights : Yegor Gaidar | on PBS (5963 words)
YEGOR GAIDAR: Perhaps the very first person is Adam Smith, because Adam Smith was the basis of understanding the role of the market in private property and in economic development.
YEGOR GAIDAR: The role of the Western advisors in the Russian transformation was extremely exaggerated, as it was in the majority of other transformations.
YEGOR GAIDAR: Without any doubt, we were naïve, first of all because the whole country for 75 years didn't have the experience working in market conditions, and there wasn't anywhere to import it.
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