Due to their involvement in the privatization vouchers and notorious "loans for shares" programs, Jordan, Gaidar, and Chubais all remain controversial figures in Russia. However, in a candid interview for the PBS series "The Commanding Heights" conducted in 2000 (see extended post), .... There was no modern office space in the city, and so we basically rented out an old hotel suite at the Metropol Hotel and paid the hotel to run extra telephone cables into it. ...
According to reports, Gaidar fell violently ill after eating breakfast at a Dublin hotel. ?I rushed after him and found him lying on the floor, unconscious. He was vomiting blood and also bleeding from the nose for about 35 minutes,? Ms ...
It had been a time filled with laughter and vodka, Ushakov informed me, until they had made the mistake of inviting Yegor Gaidar to meet Thomas Friedman. Apparently Gaidar had raised the issue of private properties impact on liberal ...
