Grigory Yavlinsky
Grigory Alexeyevich Yavlinsky is a Russian economist and politician. He is best known as the author of the 500 Days Programme, a plan for the transition of the USSR to a freemarket economy, and for his leadership of the socialliberal Yabloko party. He ran twice for Russias presidency in 1996, against Boris Yeltsin, finishing fourth with 7.3 of the vote and in 2000, against Vladimir Putin, finishing third with 5.8. He did not run in 2004 or 2008, after his party failed to cross thethreshold in the 2003 Duma elections. In 2012 presidential election he was prevented from running for president by Russian authorities, despite collectingmillion signatures of Russian citizens for his candidacy, as was demanded by law. Yavlinsky is Yabloko partys nominee for President of Russia in 2018 presidential election. Yavlinsky holds PhD in economics from Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Doctoral dissertation The socioeconomic system of Russia and the p
Yavlinsky was born and grew up in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR. His father Alexei was an officer and his mother Vera taught chemistry at an institute. Both his parents are buried in Lviv, and his brother Mikhail lives there.
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