egor Timurovich Gaidar, a Russian reformer, died on December 16th, aged 53
“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 him the architect of
Russian market reforms. As justifiably, he could be called the man who
saved his country from civil war.
In the
autumn of 1991, at the age of 35, he had to deal with the collapse of
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