Life of Yegor Gaidar

On the morning of December 16, Yegor Gaidar died in his own house in the village of Dunino, Odintsovo district, Moscow region. According to the preliminary conclusion, the cause of death was a detached blood clot. The famous politician was 53 years old.

A leading economist, in the 1980s he worked at the State Commission on the Possibilities of Economic Reforms, then at the Institute of Economics and Forecasting of Scientific and Technological Progress, then in the economic policy department of the Kommunist magazine. In 1990, he headed the economic department of the Pravda newspaper and the Institute of Economic Policy of the Academy of National Economy. From the beginning of the 1990s until the end of his life, he headed the Institute for the Economy in Transition.

On November 6, 1991, Gaidar's serious political career began. He was appointed Deputy Chairman of the RSFSR Government for Economic Policy (the government at that time was headed by the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin), and a few days later - Minister of Economy and Finance. On June 15, 1992, Gaidar became acting. premiere. He was one of those who created a new economic system in Russia, transferred it to a market framework, liberalized retail prices and launched the liberalization process. On December 15, 1992, he was removed from office after the Supreme Council refused to approve him as prime minister (then the government was headed by Viktor Chernomyrdin, and the conflict between Yeltsin and the parliament caused the crisis in the country). However, on September 18, 1993, Gaidar was again taken into the government as first deputy prime minister, and a few days later he began working as acting. Minister of Economy. When the political crisis led to an armed uprising of the opposition on October 3-4, 1993, Gaidar called on “Muscovites, all Russians who value democracy and freedom,” to gather at the Moscow City Council building and form detachments.

In December 1993, Gaidar became a deputy of the first convocation of the State Duma of the new Russia and in January 1994 left the government, heading the “Russia’s Choice” faction. Since 1994, Yegor Gaidar has been the chairman of the Democratic Choice of Russia party. The party did not get into the Duma of the second convocation in 1995. In 1999, Gaidar headed the Moscow regional group of the Union of Right Forces, and the Far Eastern Republic joined the SPS bloc, and Gaidar became co-chairman of the new party. He was elected to the Duma of the third convocation; at the next elections, the Union of Right Forces was unable to overcome the five percent barrier. When the Union of Right Forces was disbanded last October and most of the party joined the pro-Kremlin Right Cause project, Gaidar refused to participate in it.

On November 24, 2006, Gaidar was hospitalized in a Dublin hospital with symptoms of severe poisoning. The details of this story have not yet been clarified.

Recently, Yegor Gaidar has been working on a textbook on the modern history of Russia.