大象传媒

President Vladimir Putin came onto the Russian political scene in 1999 after a decade of chaos following the collapse of the Soviet Union. This included a disastrous experiment with free market reforms in 1992, which led to an increase in poverty for ordinary Russians and the emergence of an elite of super-wealthy Oligarchs. In 2018, Dina Newman spoke to one of the architects of this 鈥渟hock therapy鈥� - Andrei Nechaev, who was then the Minister for Economic Development.

(Photo: Old women selling cigarettes on the streets of Moscow in 1992. Credit: 大象传媒)