Yet a similar mood of alarm attended the departure of Yegor Gaidar from high political office.
But Yegor Gaidar, an architect of Mr Yeltsin's economic reforms, this week proposed an alternative: Weimar Germany.
Yegor Gaidar is described as the main architect of Russia's post-Soviet reforms.
But Mr Yeltsin at least acknowledged his ignorance, and therefore consulted clever youngsters who did understand like Yegor Gaidar, his hand-picked prime minister.
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 numerous criticisms of the team of the Russian vice premier, Yegor Gaidar, rightly indicate the need for a rapid beginning of the privatization program.
The new ideas, about reforming pensions and household subsidies, betrayed the hand of Yegor Gaidar, a pioneering Russian reformer who has been quietly regaining influence.
Some of its leading lights, like a former privatisation chief, Anatoly Chubais, and Yegor Gaidar, a free-market former prime minister, are keen supporters of Mr Putin's.
At the mid-February 1994 Plenum of the pro-democratic "Russia's Choice" party, a group of activists asked reformist ex-Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar to promote the quickest possible introduction of constitutional monarchy.
She was in close contact with Yegor Gaidar and the other young reformers who saved the Russian economy from total meltdown and laid the foundations, albeit shaky ones, for a market economy.
Western friends of reform in Russia should be under no illusion: The rationale for such an arrangement is not that it will ultimately produce the transformation of political and economic affairs in the former Soviet Union only on a more gradual, less tumultuous pace than originally envisioned by Yeltsin and his first administration led by Yegor Gaidar.
Western friends of reform in Russia should be under no illusion: The rationale for such an arrangement is not that it will ultimately produce the transformation of political and economic affairs in the former Soviet Union -- only on a more gradual, less tumultuous pace than originally envisioned by Yeltsin and his first administration led by Yegor Gaidar.
For example, on 19 January 1994 ABC News captured on film evidence of the extraordinary lengths to which the Clinton Administration is going to provide "spin control" on the debacle confronting its Russia policy: U.S. Ambassador to Russia Thomas Pickering was caught in what he evidently thought was a confidential exchange with the recently deposed First Deputy Premier and leading Russian reformer, Yegor Gaidar.
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