Two
Views on Russia
STANDARD & POOR'S CREDITWEEK, MARCH 10, 1999
Commenting on the article, "Russian Banks: Desperately
Seeking Solvency," are two prominent Russian politicians,
Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Nemtsov, who present their
views on the current status of the Russian economy and
prospects for the future.
Shishlov
Shows Way to Democracy in Duma
St Peterburg Times , DECEMBER 15 - 21 1997
IT HAS become conventional wisdom to write off the State
Duma as ineffectual at best and obstructionist at worst.
After all, the lower house of parliament is weak vis-a-vis
the Kremlin, dominated by Communists and its sessions
often resemble a theater of the absurd.
Lamont
Pleads for Soviet Economic Treaty
Annual Meeting News, Bangkok’ 91, By
David Shirreff
October 17,1991
U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont is not
backing the wrong horse, he says. "In fact, I’m not
really backing a horse," he insisted yesterday. The
horse in question was Grigory Yavlinsky, deputy chairman
of the committee for the management of the national (Soviet)
economy, in whom the Group of Seven industrial countries
appear to have put a lot of trust.
“I am confident that Yavlinsky has the support and confidence
of President Gorbachev,” said Lamont. "I'm also confident
that Russian President Yeltsin is interested in dialogue
with the West."
Yavlinsky's
bargain road show
The European,
July 12-14, 1991
The idea of a deal between Mr Gorbachev and the West
has been given its most precise shape in the guise of
the "Grand Bargain" that Grigory Yavlinsky has
been hawking around the West the past few weeks, writes
Michael Maclay.
Mr Yavlinsky, a former deputy prime minister of Russia,
has been working with American academics on a blueprint
for the Soviet economy that would draw heavily on Western
backing.
Gorbachev
Gestures: Signal of Fresh Commitment to Change
International Herald Tribune, By Serge
Schnemann, May 23, 1991, New York Times Service
MOSCOW - After a bitter winter of estrangement from his
comrades in changing Soviet society, President Mikhail
S. Gorbachev has signaled a readiness to come in from
the cold.
In a series of gestures since his meeting with Boris
N. Yeltsin, the head of the Russian Republic, and leaders
of eight other republics last month, the Soviet president
has reached out anew to liberal advocates of change at
home and Western leaders abroad.
Draft
Treaty Touts Private Property as Basis for Soviet Union's
Economy
Wall Street Journal, By PETER GUMBEL Staff
Writerá
September 12, 1991
MOSCOW - The Soviet Union would make private property
the basis of its economy and take steps to ensure repayment
of its foreign debt under a new economic treaty being
proposed by Grigory Yavlinsky, deputy head of an interim
committee currently running the Soviet economy.
Nuclear
Umbrellas and the Need for Understanding: IC Interview
With Ambassador Lukin
http://www.intellectualcapital.com
September 25, 1997
Vladimir Petrovich Lukin has formerly served as ambassador
to the United States from Russia, the RSFSR Congress of
People's Deputies and the RSFSR Supreme Soviet. During
the attempted August 1991 coup he served as liaison between
the Russian government and foreign nations. Lukin is considered
to be a moderate reformer. He currently chairs the Russian
Parliament's International Affairs Committee. He sat down
last week to discuss Russia's foreign policy with IC editor
Pete du Pont.
West
must aid Soviet reform says Yavlinsky
Financial Times
By Leyla Boulton in Moscow
May 21, 1991
MR Grigory Yavlinsky, the economist who
is trying to broker a western-assisted reform package
for the Soviet Union, has warned that the west would have
as much to lose from a failure of Soviet reform attempts
as the Soviet Union itself.
Soviet
Economists Visit Harvard Profs.
Team of Seven Seek Western
Advice to Draft Plan to Restructure Economy
The Harvard Crimson
By Lan N. Nguyen
May 22, 1991
A joint team of Soviet economists and American
scholars - including three Harvard professors - are meeting
this week to develop a plan to restructure the Soviet
Union's economy while allowing for the growth of democracy
there.
Joint
Plan Links Western Aid with Soviet Economic Reforms
Harvard University Gazette
May 24, 1991
A team of top Soviet economists and American
scholars met at Harvard this week to develop a joint plan
that includes a program to move the Soviet Union toward
democracy and a market economy and a program of substantial
Western cooperation.
Soviet
Economics: Out With the Old And in With… What?
The Wall Street Journal, by
Peter Gumbell-- Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal,
December 20, 1990
MOSCOW – Hidden behind a high concrete wall
on the southern edge of Moscow is a cluster of dachas
for the Russian government elite. Cooks serve up meals
three times a day, while maids deliver wicker baskets
of the best sausage, cheese and vodka for snacks. Chauffeur-driven
black Volga sedans stand ready to whisk the pampered residents
to town.
Would
the West’s Billions Pay Off?
Los Angeles Times ,
By Grigory Yavlinsky and Graham Allison
June 3, 1991
The path of transformation that the leaders of the Soviet
Union can choose depends critically on the extent of Western
engagement and assistance is critically dependent on the
path of reform the Soviet Union is prepared to undertake.
REFORMERS
WITH CLEAN HANDS: A CHALLENGE TO YELTSINISM
Post Soviet Prospects, vol III, #11,
November 1995, by Dmitri Glinski
In post-Soviet Russia, the absence of true
reforms, the plight of the middle class, and Yeltsin's
drift toward a Byzantine autocracy have led to the extinction
of the mass-based democratic movement. This December,
the electoral slate of Grigory Yavlinsky is likely to
be the only democratic and pro-reform group to pass the
5 percent threshold of the national vote needed to win
slots for its party list in the next legislature.
Soviet
Economics: Out With the Old And in With… What?
The Wall Street Journa, lby Peter Gumbell - Staff
Reporter of The Wall Street Journa, l December 20, 1990
MOSCOW – Hidden behind a high concrete wall on the
southern edge of Moscow is a cluster of dachas for the
Russian government elite. Cooks serve up meals three
times a day, while maids deliver wicker baskets of the
best sausage, cheese and vodka for snacks. Chauffeur-driven
black Volga sedans stand ready to whisk the pampered
residents to town.
Two
Views on Russia
