Monday, April 08, 2002

Russian speaks on post-Soviet years

The Cincinnati Enquirer

       OXFORD — Yegor Gaidar, the first post-Soviet prime minister of Russia and a current member of the Russian parliament, will give Miami University's second annual Havighurst Lecture today in 100 Laws Hall.

        Mr. Gaidar's 5 p.m. speech is titled “Ten Years of Transformation in Russia: the Political and Economic Challenge.” The event is free and open to the public.

        Mr. Gaidar served as Russian President Boris Yeltsin's chief economic adviser and deputy prime minister, and he was one of the principal leaders of its transformation to a market economy.

        He is currently the director of the Institute for the Economy in Transition in Moscow and co-chairman of a major political party, the Union of Right Forces, as well as a member of the Duma, Russia's parliament.