COVID-19 Update: NED is continuing to operate during this worldwide health emergency, and to make grants in support of democracy.
However, our office is closed to the public and all in-person events and meetings have been postponed, cancelled or are occurring virtually.

Ten Years After the Soviet Breakup: Going Backwards

Issue Date October 2001
Volume 12
Issue 4
Page Numbers 79-87
file Print
arrow-down-thin Download from Project MUSE
external View Citation

Read the full essay here.

A leading Russian oppositionist speaks out against continuing official assaults on self-government and human rights.

About the Author

Grigory Yavlinsky is a member of the Russian State Duma, the leader of the Yabloko party, and the chairman of the Center for Economic and Political Research in Moscow. An economist by training, he held a series of high positions during 1990-91 in the governments of the Russian Republic and the USSR. In June 1996, he was a candidate for the presidency of Russia.

View all work by Grigory Yavlinsky

Further Reading

Volume 8, Issue 1

Where is Russia Headed? Toward Stability or Crisis?

Read the full essay here.

Volume 20, Issue 3

China Since Tiananmen: Middle-Class Mobilization

Read the full essay here. Some of the many China stories to attract attention recently have involved NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) protests by largely middle class crowds gathering to…

Volume 20, Issue 2

Reading Russia: The Return of Personalized Power

Read the full essay here. In contrast to authoritarian power structures, which rest on a form of bureaucratic corporatism that makes the leader its hostage, the regime in Moscow rests…