Grigory Yavlinsky is one of the famous Politician, who was born on the memorable day of April 10 in the year 1952. Grigory Yavlinsky is a proud citizen of Ukraine.
Accomplished politician and economist known for proposing the 500 Days Program to fix the Soviet Union’s financial crisis. He ran for the Russian presidency in 1996, 2000 and 2018 as a member of the social-liberal Yabloko party.
Over the years, not only have skills been honed, but a significant impact has also been made in the professional field. Whether it's through work, public appearances, or contributions to the community, Grigory Yavlinsky continues to be an inspiration for many.
Personal Information
Details about Grigory Yavlinsky
Popular As:
Grigory Yavlinsky
First Name:
Grigory
Last Name:
Yavlinsky
Gender:
Male
Birthday:
April 10
Birth Year:
1952
Age:
71-years
Education:
Plekhanov Russian Economic University
Career
He received his PhD in economics fromthe Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He became the champion of the Ukrainian SSR in junior boxing from 1967-68.
Family
His mother Vera was a chemistry teacher and his father Alexei was an officer. He married his wifeElena in 1973. His sons’ names areMikhail andAlexey. He was defeated by Boris Yeltsinin the 1996 Russian presidential election.
Grigory Yavlinsky Timeline
1967
In 1967 and 1968, he was the champion of the Ukrainian SSR in junior boxing.
1971
Their son Mikhail was born in 1971 and currently works for the BBC Russian Service in London.
1980
In 1980, Yavlinsky was assigned to the USSR State Committee for Labour and Social Affairs in charge of the heavy industry sector.
1981
Their other son, Aleksey, was born in 1981 and works as a computer programmer in Moscow.
1982
When Brezhnev died in 1982, the KGB finally left Yavlinsky alone.
1984
From 1984, he held a management position at the Labour Ministry and then at the Council of Ministers of the USSR.
1985
In this capacity, he had to join Communist Party of the Soviet Union, of which he was a member in 1985–1991.
1989
In 1989, he was made department head of the Statement Commission for Economic Reforms run by Academician Leonid Abalkin.
1990
Yavlinsky's commitment to a market economy was established in 1990 when he wrote 500 Days – a programme for the Soviet Union in which he proposed the rapid transition from a centrally planned economy to a free market economy in less than two years.
1991
In the summer of 1991, while working in Harvard, he co-authored a new reform programme jointly with Graham Allison, which offered a platform for Gorbachev's negotiations with the G7 over financial aid in support of a transition to a market economy.
1992
When the "shock therapy" reforms were launched by Yeltsin and Yegor Gaidar in January 1992, Yavlinsky became an outspoken critic of these policies, emphasising the differences between his programme and Gaidar's reform programme (such as the sequencing of privatisation versus the liberalisation of prices and the applicability of his program to the entire Soviet Union):.
1993
In 1993, as the conflict intensified between Yeltsin and the parliament over the shock therapy programme, Yavlinsky had high ratings in the polls as a potential presidential candidate and the image of an independent, centrist politician, untainted by corruption.
1995
After Boldyrev clashed with Yavlinsky over a draft law on production-sharing agreements and left the bloc in 1995, the name was retained, but now reinterpreted as the "Yavlinsky Bloc".
1996
In 1996 he ran against Boris Yeltsin, finishing fourth with 7.3% of the vote.
1998
In September 1998, after Russia's 1998 financial crash brought down Sergei Kirienko's government, Yavlinsky proposed the candidacy of Yevgeny Primakov who was elected Prime Minister in spite of resistance from Yeltsin, his family and entourage.
1999
Later in 1999 Yavlinsky criticised Primakov as a throwback to the stagnation days of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
2000
In 2000 Yavlinsky ran against Vladimir Putin, finishing third with 5.8%.
2002
In 2002, he took part in the negotiations with the Chechen terrorists during the Moscow theatre hostage crisis and was praised by President Vladimir Putin for his role in the standoff.
2003
While supporting Putin's early foreign policies of developing closer ties to the United States, he remained critical of domestic policies, in particular the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the fall of 2003.
2004
Yavlinsky refused to run for president in 2004, claiming that Putin had rigged the elections to the point of making them meaningless.
2007
After the Yabloko Party failed again to secure representation in the 2007 Russian legislative election, there was some possibility that Yavlinsky might run again for presidency in 2008.
2008
On 22 June 2008, Yavlinsky stepped down as party leader at Yabloko's 15th congress, proposing in his place the candidacy of Moscow City Duma deputy Sergey Mitrokhin who was elected as the new party chairman.
2011
In September 2011 Yavlinsky was appointed head of the electoral list of Yabloko Party for the State Duma elections of the sixth convocation by a resolution of the party's congress.
2012
In the 2012 presidential election he was prevented from running for president by Russian authorities, despite collecting the necessary 2 million signatures of Russian citizens for his candidacy.
2013
He wrote that a social contract had existed in Ukraine until the end of autumn 2013: the people had been prepared to endure Yanukovych as long as they could see the country moving towards Europe.
2014
At the end of February 2014 Yavlinsky published in the Russian business daily Vedomosti an article with the heading "Russia is creating a zone of instability around its borders".
2015
It was submitted in February 2015 to the Governor of the city Georgy Poltavchenko.
2016
Yavlinsky and Yabloko prioritised the topics of the war in Donbass and the annexation of Crimea during the party's election campaign for the State Duma of the 7th convocation in 2016.
2017
In 2017 Yavlinsky developed a peace plan for Donbass consisting of 10 points.
2018
Yavlinsky was Yabloko's candidate for Russian President in the 2018 presidential election, when he ran against Putin and got 1.05% of the vote, according to official results.
2020
On 15 January 2020 the Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his appeal to the Federal Assembly, declared that amendments should be introduced to the existing Constitution of the Russian Federation, including repudiation of international law in Russia, the consolidation of power in the hands of one individual – the President, as well as the lifting of restrictions on the terms of office of the President, which would enable the existing Head of State to hold this post until 2036.
2021
After Alexey Navalny's return from Germany, where he had been receiving treatment after an attempted poisoning, and his subsequent arrest in Russia, mass protest actions started in support of Navalny in January 2021.
2022
As the mass media reported, all the country's financial reserves were intended for a "rainy day", as confirmed by the events in Ukraine in 2022.
2023
On 4 February 2023 Novaya Gazeta published an article by Grigory Yavlinsky on the front page of its weekly issue entitled "Just Stop!" where he called for a cease fire in the fighting between Russia and Ukraine.
