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Gaidar’s former colleagues and friends: “He saved Russia from collapse”

Published: 16 December, 2009, 15:38
Edited: 20 December, 2009, 03:35


Boris Yeltsin (L) and Yegor Gaidar (RIA Novosti Photo)

To talk about Yegor Gaidar, RT turned to Georgy Satarov, a former aide to Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Gozman, ex-leader of the Union of Right Forces, the country’s right-wing liberal party.

 
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Fred December 19, 2009, 13:05 quote
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I could write a few pages on this man but I'll be short and sweet; Gaidar was a sell out to the West especially the US and Israel....People like him should have been sent to prison for crimes against the Russian people.

Andi July 17, 2011, 11:59 quote
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Articles like this raelly grease the shafts of knowledge.

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