Grigory A. Yavlinsky
is the founder and chief whip of the Russian liberal party Yabloko. He
studied Economics at the Plekhanov Moscow Institute, worked at the
Academy of Sciences and in the Russian Ministry of Labour. In 1990 he
was Deputy Prime Minister and one year later became President
Gorbachev's political advisor. He was a presidential candidate in both
1996 and 2000. His most recent publication in German is »Das neue
Russland« (1996; t: The New Russia).
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