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Dec. 28, 1992: A Bone for the Dogs
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Dec. 28, 1992 What Does Science Tell Us About God?
</history>
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 14
WORLD
A Bone for the Dogs
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<p>With Gaidar gone, Russian capitalists grow wary of the future
</p>
<p> Yegor Gaidar never expected to last long in power. Appointed
to Boris Yeltsin's government a year ago, the 36-year-old
architect of Russia's economic reforms foresaw a "kamikaze"
mission: launch Russia's transition to a market economy and then
withdraw, battered and no doubt vilified for making his nation
suffer. His prediction proved accurate last week, when he was
ousted as acting Prime Minister. In his place rose fears that
Russia had begun a slow retreat from democratic reform.
</p>
<p> Gaidar's demise came after two weeks of turmoil at the
Congress of People's Deputies. After compromises had collapsed
and a constitutional crisis had been averted, Gaidar fared
poorly in a vote, and a weary Yeltsin caved in to the
conservatives. To succeed Gaidar, Yeltsin sullenly chose Victor
Chernomyrdin, 54, a former Communist Party apparatchik from the
powerful energy industry.
</p>
<p> Yeltsin promised "no backtracking" and named Gaidar as his
economic adviser. On Saturday he cut short a visit to China,
claiming he had to "restore order" in Moscow and ensure that the
"inner core" of Gaidar's team was not excluded from the new
government. But the show of authority could not obscure
Yeltsin's political weakness. And his nation remains
impoverished. Although officials from the G-7 industrialized
nations agreed to permit Russia to defer payments on $15 billion
of the $16 billion it owes in foreign debts for this year and
next, the country is still $86 billion in arrears.
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