The burden of Boris.

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  • Author(s): Singer, Daniel
  • Source:
    Nation. 4/1/1996, Vol. 262 Issue 13, p23-26. 4p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      DISCRETIONARY income; INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund; POLITICIANS; PRICE inflation; SAVINGS; ELECTIONS
    • Abstract:
      It is perilous for Russia's rulers and for their Western backers because the people failed to conform to expectations. Faced the collapse of production, the cancer of corruption, the yawning gap between rich and poor, their real incomes slashed and savings wiped out by galloping inflation, the ungrateful creatures did not ask for more of the same medicine. Indeed, the striking feature of the parliamentary elections last December was the overwhelming rejection of the politicians connected with the so-called shock therapy prescribed by the International Monetary Fund and practiced for the past four years.