“If we talk about Yeltsin's mistakes before 1996, then the first one was in the calculations: it was impossible to rebuild and raise the economy in a year, as the reform team assumed. It turned out that the cat's tail was chopped off in parts. President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin to Sofia Zyryanova Alexander Nikolaevich, the era of Yeltsin - has it gone forever? It would be wrong to say that the Yeltsin era is over.

The outstanding Russian actor Kirill Lavrov died. The New Times publishes excerpts of one of the last interview, which he gave Arthur Solomonov. I know that I won’t live like that for a long time. Moreover, I have the experience of my father before my eyes, who said that he could not stand the elderly on stage and at sixty years will leave the theater. And he kept his word.

## “And I'll take the flag from the car and go towards the tanks, let them shoot at me, they will not do anything to me” Naina Yeltsina, Tatyana Dyachenko and Elena Okulova - Eldar Ryazanova April 1993. In the house on Lesnoy. Ryazanov: Tell us how the morning of August 19 began? Elena: An uprising began. Tatyana: We were in Ostankino. Naina Iosifovna: We were waiting for his arrival from Kazakhstan on Sunday.

Yeltsin showed that freedom can be respected here, idleness and the thirst for "freebies" can be attacked, democracy can appear here. Culturologist, Editor-in-Chief of the Art of Cinema magazine Daniel Dondurey Regarding the death of Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, there have been many judgments in recent days, both by political leaders and cultural figures, and by ordinary people.

“His whole life is a feat. And the feat, unfortunately, leads to crucifixion ... " People's Artist of Russia Leah Akhedzhakova I was always killed by the number of hatred for him. Even when he transferred power, even then people demanded the trial of him. Putin was already president, and they were all eager to judge Boris Nikolaevich, to deprive him of pensions, privileges. It seems to me that now all these people should bite the language. Such is our mentality - we can love only the dead!

"The tasks are clear, but they resemble another wave of populism." Evgeny Yasin Scientific adviser to the State University - Higher School of Economics In general, the tasks indicated by the president in the message to the Federal Assembly are fulfilled. Including the amounts: although they seem extremely large, in fact they are not such. Approximately 2-2.5% of Russia's GDP are quite moderate numbers.

The great musician Mstislav Rostropovich died. Shortly before his serious illness, he gave an interview to Oleg Dusaev, which the New Times publishes, trying to preserve the Maestro speech style as much as possible. Maestro, you are not only a cellist and conductor, but also the creator and the president of several charitable foundations. Why? When I was deprived of citizenship and my family was expelled from here, this tragedy added me even more love for my homeland.

One person died, 12 - injured, about 300 - detained. The numbers are by no means finite. Plus broken windows, burned stops, upside down and crippled cars. Plus the military on the streets of Tallinn. There have been no similar unrest in Estonia since the winter of 1991. This is the result of the decision of the Estonian authorities to demolish the bronze soldier-a monument to the Soviet soldiers-liberators.

The goals are defined, the tasks are set. For work, comrades! The Russian market has long been divorced from politics and does not react to any speeches, discussions and rallies. The domestic market is much more than local messes are interested in unemployment in the United States, clashes in Nigeria or the Shanghai Exchange Index. For the president - more precisely, for the message to the Federal Assembly - the market made an exception and fell last Thursday.

The era of skinny cows. The smart democrat Joseph from the Bible announced to Pharaoh that the fat cows from his sleep is seven years of abundance and prosperity, and the skinny cows after them are years of hunger and crop failure. We see the same dream in reality, we, Westerners and liberals loved by God (because the West is the same Earth promised), and we can predict something.

Problems of today. In the Yeltsin era there was such an expression - "political heavyweight." Chernomyrdin, Primakov, Luzhkov ... although this concept did not fit the Yeltsin himself. Against the background of heavyweights, he was a heavy truck. Like Uralmash against car repair depot. Today it was a word. The old "cramps" lose weight on a yogurt diet, there are no demand for new ones. And the position of heavy truck is generally deleted from the staffing table.

“He gave a chance to himself and the country. He himself, with us, did not use it. He was defeated - with us. That's why we were so silent with this cold April night. ” In addition to the coffin itself on the pedestal and flag on it, there was almost nothing visible: the pedestal stood five meters from the fence. What were they afraid? What does someone spit, throw out some abomination? Don't know.

He came in, knocked with the words: "Filmons, I'm already here." Irena Lesnevskaya: Eldar Alexandrovich, remember our first shooting by Boris Nikolaevich? Eldar Ryazanov: There was a passionate Saturday. I.L.: This was the first time this shooting in the country was in general, this has never happened. And no one saw Naina Josifovna at all. Was 1993. Funny fact: we shot for three or four hours, waiting for Boris Nikolayevich. Everyone told us: now, now he will come.

"Yeltsin is a person who united people of different worlds, different languages, different style of thinking, different values" Chairman of the Board of RAO "UES of Russia" Anatoly Chubais - Olga Romanova When was the last time you talked with Boris Nikolayevich? The last time is in February.

On the day when Boris Yeltsin died, in London in the Hall of Queen Elizabeth II, a stone's throw from the Westminster Palace, was the Russian Economic Forum. They reported the death of Yeltsin so - one of the present, who took the microphone to ask a question, said: "The news had just come from Moscow - Yeltsin died ... But I did not take my word for this." And - continued his painful question about why the Western press writes so negatively about Russia and its businessmen.