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GRAY, Elizabeth

2010-0012

Sound

1 of 1

1992-02-23

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

interviewer/reporter, Elizabeth Gray; host, Mary Lou Finlay

This is a documentary about the situation in Russia, where there is growing discontent with the government of President Boris Yeltsin, there are shortages of goods such as food and the transition from Communism to democracy is encountering obstacles. Interviewees include: politicians Boris Kagarlitsky, Leonid Volkov and a former campaign organizer who now is a businessman. Kagarlitsky calls the Yeltsin government the worst government in Russia since the early 17th century. Volkov says the government is medieval and feudal rather than a real democracy. Other subjects discussed include: bureaucrats who are still Communists and who are still in the government; cynicism about the prospects for democracy; the views of various pro-democracy parties; concerns by the democratic parties that the nomenklatura (former Communist Party bureaucrats) are allowed to buy former state institutes and factories under the new privatization legislation; and prospects for a multi-party democracy. <17mn 44s>

English

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