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GRAY, Elizabeth

2010-0012

Sound

1 of 1

1993-04-04

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

interviewer/reporter, Elizabeth Gray

This is a documentary about the new, wealthy capitalist class in Russia. Most people still face economic hardship but thousands of people have become wealthy since Mikhail Gorbachev introduced Perestroika. Subjects discussed include: commodity and trading exchanges in Moscow; the trade in hard currency; the increase in the number of hard currency restaurants and casinos; the rise of the new rich; the motivation and attitudes of the new wealthy class in Russia; violence against business people; organized crime; protection money; business taxes; people buying foreign goods in a flea market; buying consumer goods in the United Arab Emirates; and support for Boris Yeltsin only because of the fear that another leader would be worse. Interviewees include: Alex [Levenson], the head of market research for the newly-privatized Russian Center of Public Opinion; Russian business people; and a woman at a fashion show. <29mn 55s>

English

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Copyright owner : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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