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He was appointed deputy prime minister in March of 1997, and although he enjoyed earlier successes, left the government late last year as the ruble plummeted.
While he had popular support and he had some success in breaking up Russia's state-owned monopolies, weakened support from President Boris Yeltsin and the downturn of the ruble hastened Nemtsov's departure.
All the problems began in America--not in Salt Lake, but in Los Angeles. The 1976 Montreal Games had dutifully lost millions of dollars, and the 1980 Moscow Games, boycotted by the U.S., didn't make a ruble. The Winter Games, always staged in nice little Currier & Ives villages, had...
Russia's economic free fall has not been kind to MIKHAIL GORBACHEV. First, in the banking collapse that followed last August's devaluation of the ruble, he lost--as he told the German magazine Bunte--his life savings of some $80,000. Then the Pizza Hut in Moscow that he...
Russia's economic free fall has not been kind to Mikhail Gorbachev. First, in the banking collapse that followed last August's devaluation of the ruble, he lost--as he told the German magazine Bunte--his life savings of some $80,000. Then the Pizza Hut in Moscow that he...