Igor Gaidar, früherer Ministerpräsident in Rußland und zur Zeit Mitglied der Fraktion ,,Einheit der Rechten Kräfte" in der Duma.
So the Russia that George W. Bush will visit is one of post-revolutionary economic stabilization, accompanied by a reactionary struggle against central authority - a struggle waged not by Russia's regions, but by the state's own bureaucrats. Some might argue that it is Putin's revitalization of central power that is reactionary.