Andrei Nikolajewitsch Illarionow

Andrei Illarionow (2003)

Andrei Nikolajewitsch Illarionow ( Russian Андре́й Никола́евич Илларио́нов ; born September 16, 1961 Sestrorezk , Soviet Union ) is a Russian economist who used to work as an economic advisor to Russian governments up to Vladimir Putin and was there until December 27, 2005 and is now at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity , the Cato Institute , works.

biography

Illarionov was born in Sestrorezk, studied at the St. Petersburg State University and received his Ph.D. in 1987.

He was an advisor to Minister of Economic Affairs Gaidar and to Prime Minister Chernomyrdin . Under Putin he was the main economic advisor and became the representative of Russia to the G8 .

In 2005 he complained that Russia was no longer a democratic country. In 2006 Vedomosti quoted him as saying that the Russian leaders had "destroyed the law, violated human rights, strangled the free media, liquidated democracy, discredited non-governmental organizations, nationalized private property and used energy resources as weapons against its neighbors."

In 2014 he described Russia as a group state : “In the sense that the state is owned by a group. A group of current and former agents of the KGB , FSB and other secret services of the Soviet Union and Russia. "

Illarionov pointed out in 2016 that Russia's gold purchases in early 2016 "broke all records". This, with simultaneous economic standstill, points to the preparation for a long-term confrontation, which would have started with the start of armament in 2010. Seen in this light, the military confrontations with Georgia and Ukraine would not have been accidental actions.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prominent Russians: Andrey Illarionov , Russiapedia by RT
2. ↑ Trust only your own , Wienerzeitung, September 9, 2014
3. ↑ Manfred Quiring : Putin's Russian World: How the Kremlin Divides Europe , Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86153-941-4 , page 142

• Radio interview with Echo Moscow on December 30, 2004: THREE VIEWS ON PRESIDENTIAL POWER, LAW AND THE ECONOMY , English translation by The Foreign Policy Center , January 2005