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#Shock-Therapy

Events indexed under #Shock-Therapy — 8 entries in the record.

8 events From Dec 1, 1991 To Aug 17, 1998 Open in filter view →

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Date	Event	Lanes	Status
1998-08-17	Russia Defaults on Debt and Abandons Ruble Defense: Largest Sovereign Default in History Caps Decade of Economic Devastation Boris Yeltsin · Sergei Kiriyenko · International Monetary Fund · Central Bank of Russia · +1		confirmed
1997-09-01	USAID Cancels Harvard Russia Project After Discovering Shleifer and Hay Used Insider Positions to Profit from Russian Investments Andrei Shleifer · Jonathan Hay · Harvard Institute for International Development · United States Agency for International Development · +3		confirmed
1995-11-01	Russia's 'Loans-for-Shares' Auctions Transfer $100 Billion in State Assets to Oligarchs for Pennies on the Dollar Boris Yeltsin · Vladimir Potanin · Mikhail Khodorkovsky · Boris Berezovsky · +4		confirmed
1995-04-01	IMF Approves $6.8 Billion Russia Loan With Structural Adjustment Conditions: Second Largest Loan in IMF History Fails to Stabilize Economy International Monetary Fund · Boris Yeltsin · Bill Clinton · G-7 · +2		confirmed
1992-10-01	Russia Begins Mass Voucher Privatization: 148 Million Citizens Given Certificates Worth 'Two Volga Cars' That Become Worthless Anatoly Chubais · Boris Yeltsin · State Committee for State Property Management · Russian Government		confirmed
1992-01-02	Russia Launches 'Shock Therapy' Economic Reforms: Price Liberalization Triggers 2,520% Inflation and Economic Collapse Boris Yeltsin · Yegor Gaidar · Jeffrey Sachs · Harvard University · +2		confirmed
1992-01-01	Harvard Receives $40 Million USAID Contract to Advise Russia's Economic Transition: 'Harvard's Blank Check from Uncle Sam' Harvard Institute for International Development · Andrei Shleifer · Jonathan Hay · Lawrence Summers · +2		confirmed
1991-12-01	Harvard's Sachs Becomes Yeltsin Economic Advisor After 'Grand Bargain' for Soviet Support Rejected by Bush Administration Jeffrey Sachs · Boris Yeltsin · Mikhail Gorbachev · Yegor Gaidar · +4		confirmed