Ten Years After the Soviet Breakup: Going Backwards

Issue Date October 2001
Volume 12
Issue 4
Page Numbers 79-87
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A leading Russian oppositionist speaks out against continuing official assaults on self-government and human rights.

About the Author

Grigory Yavlinsky is a member of the Russian State Duma, the leader of the Yabloko party, and the chairman of the Center for Economic and Political Research in Moscow. An economist by training, he held a series of high positions during 1990-91 in the governments of the Russian Republic and the USSR. In June 1996, he was a candidate for the presidency of Russia.

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