“IN RUSSIA you have to live long,” a Russian poet said once. Yegor Gaidar did not. But in his short life he did not just see historic changes, he brought them about. Journalists liked to call ...

Yegor Gaidar, who died yesterday of a blood clot aged 53, was the architect of the "shock therapy" administered to the Russian economy under President Boris Yeltsin. 16 December 2009 • 6:26pm ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Yegor Gaidar, architect of the tumultuous reforms that helped cement Russia's post-Soviet transition but drove millions into poverty, died on Wednesday. He was 53. As the late ...

FEW people make such a difference. In 1991 Yegor Gaidar took responsibility for one of the worst messes in the history of economics, in the largest country in the world. The Soviet planned economy ...

I met Yegor Gaidar in early 1990. He was the editor of the economics department at "Pravda" and I was looking for a job. Yegor spent a long time explaining to me what his department was doing ...

Yegor Gaidar was born into a family of Bolshevik nobility. His grandfather, Arkady Gaidar, was both a Red Army field commander known for his courage and ruthlessness and, in his later years, an iconic ...

Gaidar was 35 when Boris Yeltsin offered him post of Minister of Finance and Economy, charged with carrying out radical economic reforms in Russia’s first post-Soviet government. Several months ...

Yegor Gaidar, an architect of Russia's economic transformation after the collapse of the Soviet Union, died while working on a book at around 3 a.m. today from complications arising from blood ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Former Russian premier Yegor Gaidar said on Thursday enemies of the Kremlin probably tried to kill him during a trip to Dublin last month in an attack he likened to something ...

Maria Gaidar is a political activist from Russia who has challenged the Putin regime on its violations of electoral freedom. She is the daughter of the former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, who ...