Article: The rise of the new right: Russia after Chechnya. (nationalism in Russia)

BORIS YELTSIN had to take a hard decision after the parliamentary election of December 1993, when Russia's reformers did so badly and wild Vladimir Zhirinovsky strode on to the political stage. Either President Yeltsin could see the election as proof that "he had to use his powers to push more energetically towards a free market, democracy and respect for the rule of law and human rights; or he could go along with those who had concluded that Russia needs a bigger state, more state controls [and] more aggressive foreign . . . policies."

Those are the words of Yegor Gaidar, who was prime minister for much of 1992 (when he launched a radical economic reform), leads the ...

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