15 October 1998 IN A STATEMENT to the Russian people, the opposition Communists said they are ready to assume responsibility for pulling Russia’s economy out of its crisis and form a government that would return “strategic industries” to state ownership, Interfax reported on 9 September. They also pledged “free education, medical service, cheap housing, and social security.” Aleksei Kara-Murza, a […]
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