Yegor Gaidar, Russian economist and politician, dies at 53

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Russian liberal economist and politician Yegor Gaidar died on Wednesday at the age of 53. He was the son of the famous Russian journalist Timur Gaidar.

Born in Moscow in 1956, he graduated in economics from Moscow State University in 1978. In January 1992 in the position of Russia’s first finance minister he dropped state…

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