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Apr 10, 1952 Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine 72 years old
Russian politician and economist
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Grigory Yavlinsky - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Grigory Yavlinsky
- Grigory Alexeyevich Yavlinsky (Russian: ?????´??? ??????´???? ????´?????; born 10 April 1952) is a Russian economist and politician. He is best known as the author of the 500 Days Programme, a plan for the transition of the Soviet regime to a free-market economy, and for his leadership of the social-liberal Yabloko party.
- He ran twice for Russia's presidency – in 1996, against Boris Yeltsin, finishing fourth with 7.3% of the vote; and in 2000, against Vladimir Putin, finishing third with 5.8%.
- He did not run in 2004 or 2008, after his party failed to cross the 5% threshold in the 2003 Duma elections.
- In 2012 presidential election he was prevented from running for president by Russian authorities, despite collecting 2 million signatures of Russian citizens for his candidacy, as was demanded by law.
- Yavlinsky was Yabloko's nominee for President of Russia in the 2018 presidential election.Yavlinsky holds a Ph.D.
- in economics from the Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; his doctoral dissertation was entitled "The socio-economic system of Russia and the problem of its modernization." He is a professor in the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
- Yavlinsky speaks Russian, Ukrainian and English.
