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Article: FORMER CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISOR OF RUSSIA TO SPEAK AT SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY EVENT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 9, 2006
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San Jose State University issued the following press release:
Andrei Illarionov, chief economic advisor for President Valdimir Putin of Russia from 2000 to 2005, will speak at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, November 14, at the Rotary Summit Center, 88 S. Fourth St., San José. The Department of Economics at San José State University is sponsoring the event, which is free and open to the public.
Illarionov, who holds a doctorate in economics from Leningrad State University, arrived in Moscow as Russia first embarked on economic reforms in the early 1990s. As Putin's chief economic adviser, he supported a flat income tax, the creation of a stabilization fund for windfall oil reserves and the early ...