Yegor Timurovich Gaidar

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Yegor Gaidar on March 13, 2008

Yegor Timurowitsch Gaidar ( Russian Егор Тимурович Гайдар ; born March 19, 1956 in Moscow , † December 16, 2009 in Odintsovo ) was a Russian politician and economist.

Life

Gaidar studied economics at Moscow's Lomonosov University until 1978 . In 1980 he completed his doctorate there.

Until 1987 he worked at various scientific institutes. From 1987 he was an economic editor for the magazine Kommunist . In 1990 he moved to Pravda , where he also headed the economic department.

In 1991, after the August coup , Boris Yeltsin appointed Gaidar as Minister of Economics. As such, he was responsible for the fundamental reforms of the market economy . At the same time he was Deputy Prime Minister. On 7./8. In December 1991, as Yeltsin's advisor, he was involved in the "Belowesch Agreement" (named after the place of negotiation, a hunting lodge in the Belarusian part of the Belowescher Heide ). The agreement concluded between Yeltsin, the President of Ukraine , Leonid Kravchuk , and the head of state of Belarus , Stanislau Shushkevich , sealed the end of the Soviet Union .

From June to December 1992 he was Acting Prime Minister of Russia . In 1994 he left Boris Yeltsin's government .

From 2000/2001 he was a leading member of the Union of Right Forces party , a liberal, pro-market economy party. He headed a Moscow economic institute and advised the government.

In November 2006, shortly after the polonium assassination attempt on Alexander Litvinenko in London , Gaidar suffered a severe collapse in Dublin and later suggested he had been poisoned. Gaidar had previously complained about the disappearance of the control mechanisms in the Russian state as well as the lack of an independent press and the worldview in the media that was transported in its place. He also postulated a connection between Russia's fascist organizations and the government.

On December 16, 2009, Yegor Gaidar died of a heart attack . He was cremated and buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery on an undisclosed date .

1991/1992 ruble crisis

The Russian public still sees Gaidar as one of the contributors to the 1991 and 1992 ruble crisis. At that time, due to rapid inflation, numerous bank balances of private customers (especially Sberbank ) lost massively in value in a few days. At that time, Gaidar tried, among other things, to cover the pension demands on the state from the Soviet era by implementing market reforms. Discussions about the correctness of his economic policy, which went down in history under the name of " shock therapy " (шоковая терапия) haunted him until the end of his life.

family

Gaidar's father was the rear admiral and military correspondent of Pravda Timur Gaidar . His paternal grandfather was the writer Arkadi Gaidar , and his maternal grandfather was the writer Pavel Bashov . His daughter, Maria Gaidar , is one of the leaders of the liberal opposition in Russia.

Web links

Commons : Jegor Gaidar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Thumann : Cheers! To the downfall! On December 8, 1991, Boris Yeltsin dissolved the Soviet Union in a remote hunting palace. In: Die Zeit from December 8, 2016, p. 22.
  2. ↑ Yegor Gaidar: ОТ СЕБЯ: Понимаю, что выжил чудом. In: Vedomosti. December 7, 6, accessed December 16, 9 .
  3. ^ Die Zeit, December 1, 2006 (accessed March 17, 2018)
  4. ↑ The Temptation of Russian Fascism. , inoSMI , May 1, 2006.
  5. ↑ Russia: Former Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar has died. ( Memento from January 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Tageblatt. Fir Lëtzebuerg newspaper , December 16, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Gaidar, Yegor Timurovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гайдар, Егор Тимурович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician and prime minister
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2009
Place of death Odintsovo