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GRAY, Elizabeth

2010-0012

Sound

1 of 1

1991-09-29

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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

Documentary about the political and economic instability in Russia. Elizabeth Gray interviews three Russian women: Natasha, a translator; Tanya, an office clerk and Svetlana, an engineer in a computer company. Subjects discussed: the cost of living; people are hoarding and bartering food; the fear of unemployment; fear and depression among Russian people about the economic situation; a lack of understanding of what a free market economy is; and the view that there should be another, more gradual way to reform the economy although such proposals failed to gain support in other former Communist countries. Ordinary people are discouraged about the trouble they are having making ends meet and feel that the free market economy will only benefit the rich. <9mn 56s>

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