#Yeltsin’s policies in post-Soviet Russia between 1991 and 2000 had a transformative and often destabilising impact on the country’s political, economic, and social landscape. His attempts to dismantle the Soviet system and introduce market reforms were radical, abrupt, and deeply contested. While these policies succeeded in establishing a framework for capitalist transformation and electoral politics, they also unleashed economic hardship, social fragmentation, and institutional instability. Yeltsin’s presidency was marked by a volatile combination of reformist ambition and political authoritarianism, as he bypassed representative institutions to push through controversial measures.
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His economic programme, known as “shock therapy”, aimed to rapidly liberalise prices and privatise state assets but resulted in massive inflation, the collapse of industrial output, and a dramatic fall in living standards. In the political sphere, Yeltsin’s consolidation of executive power undermined democratic development, culminating in the violent suppression of parliamentary opposition in 1993(#BlackOctober #October93). Corruption, the rise of oligarchic capitalism, and the erosion of state authority contributed to widespread disillusionment. By 2000, Yeltsin had succeeded in dismantling the Soviet system but at the cost of entrenching new forms of inequality, weakening state institutions, and leaving a legacy of political cynicism that paved the way for authoritarian consolidation under his successor.
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The economic reforms introduced under Yeltsin had the most immediate and far-reaching consequences, fundamentally altering the structure of the Russian economy but also inflicting profound social damage. The liberalisation of prices in January 1992 led to hyperinflation, with prices increasing by over 2,500% in a single year, wiping out savings and destroying the real value of wages. The ruble collapsed, and by 1994 industrial output had fallen by 48% compared to 1990 levels. GDP contracted by over 40% during the 1990s, a collapse unprecedented in peacetime.
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The decision to implement “shock therapy” was championed by Gaidar and supported by Western financial institutions, notably the IMF and World Bank, which provided loans conditional on liberalisation and fiscal austerity. However, the consequences for ordinary Russians were devastating. Real incomes fell by over 50% between 1991 and 1995, and by the end of the decade, an estimated 40% of the population were living below the poverty line. The social safety net—pensions, healthcare, and education—collapsed, and life expectancy for Russian men fell from 64 years in 1990 to 58 by 1994.
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🇵🇸After three years of genocide, Gaza’s olive harvest is going extinct
The Israeli army has bulldozed over 1.6 million olive trees in #Gaza since the beginning of the #genocide in 2023, threatening the livelihood and heritage of olive farming communities, and the survival of a centuries-old Palestinian cultural tradition.
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The Israeli army has bulldozed over 1.6 million olive trees in #Gaza since the beginning of the #genocide in 2023, threatening the livelihood and heritage of olive farming communities, and the survival of a centuries-old Palestinian cultural tradition.
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Ok so, as funny as this was, the ACTUAL situation is the following:
1. In parts of Russia, particularly the Siberian and Far Eastern steppes, plague is endemic in some local animal populations - rodents and the like, ground squirrels in particular. Sometimes people get infected, just like in other parts of the world with endemic plague (e.g. the western US, where people also sometimes catch plague from prairie dogs and such). Plague is not a dangerous epidemiological threat these days, it is easily treated with antibiotics.
2. A woman in Irkutsk, who worked at an institute for combating these endemic plague populations (this has been going on for many decades, but it's tricky to eradicate it completely) fell ill with pneumonia of unknown etiology. She died in the hospital.
3. The woman had been on a work trip to Buryatia to study one of those animal populations with endemic plague just before she fell ill. Because of this and the fact that her pneumonia was of unknown etiology, the hospital where she was treated and people she had contact with were put in quarantine as a precautionary measure.
4. A suspected pneumonic plague diagnosis was NOT confirmed during the autopsy of the woman who died.
5. There's a nasty flu going around right now, a bunch of my friends and my wife had it, so authorities are somewhat worried, but it appears to just be normal seasonal flu.
6. All the above combined gave enough material for domestic and foreign actors to spam the internet with fake news and panic slop. Most of the people the woman had been in contact with have been tested, some had flu or COVID. There are no heightened quarantine measures. No hospitals or cities are on lockdown. Absolutely nothing out of the ordinary is happening. When a person who studies dangerous illnesses falls ill, you take some common sense routine security measures, that's just the normal thing to do everywhere in the world.
We discussed the Irkutsk case (though this was recorded before it was confirmed that the woman did not die of plague) and other news on our most recent episode: https://rwasamizdat.substack.com/p/rwa-news-plague-bears-and-bridges
1. In parts of Russia, particularly the Siberian and Far Eastern steppes, plague is endemic in some local animal populations - rodents and the like, ground squirrels in particular. Sometimes people get infected, just like in other parts of the world with endemic plague (e.g. the western US, where people also sometimes catch plague from prairie dogs and such). Plague is not a dangerous epidemiological threat these days, it is easily treated with antibiotics.
2. A woman in Irkutsk, who worked at an institute for combating these endemic plague populations (this has been going on for many decades, but it's tricky to eradicate it completely) fell ill with pneumonia of unknown etiology. She died in the hospital.
3. The woman had been on a work trip to Buryatia to study one of those animal populations with endemic plague just before she fell ill. Because of this and the fact that her pneumonia was of unknown etiology, the hospital where she was treated and people she had contact with were put in quarantine as a precautionary measure.
4. A suspected pneumonic plague diagnosis was NOT confirmed during the autopsy of the woman who died.
5. There's a nasty flu going around right now, a bunch of my friends and my wife had it, so authorities are somewhat worried, but it appears to just be normal seasonal flu.
6. All the above combined gave enough material for domestic and foreign actors to spam the internet with fake news and panic slop. Most of the people the woman had been in contact with have been tested, some had flu or COVID. There are no heightened quarantine measures. No hospitals or cities are on lockdown. Absolutely nothing out of the ordinary is happening. When a person who studies dangerous illnesses falls ill, you take some common sense routine security measures, that's just the normal thing to do everywhere in the world.
We discussed the Irkutsk case (though this was recorded before it was confirmed that the woman did not die of plague) and other news on our most recent episode: https://rwasamizdat.substack.com/p/rwa-news-plague-bears-and-bridges
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RWA NEWS: Plague, Bears and Bridges
It’s begun.
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Tensions are still ongoing at the Place de la Nation (Paris) as the last groups of high school students arrive at the demonstration.
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#France #ACAB
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Who is familiar with this?