months. prostitution became widespread and organized crime increased. decided to stop implementing jeltsin'support it. boris yeltson is uh uh the best hope for democracy uh in russia. yelsin couldn't tolerate the parliament. he agreed to almost all american demands, but there was no news about the economic recovery for the soviet union. by 1998, 80% of russia's farmers went bankrupt and seven and state-owned factories shut down in the countries separated from the soviet union, the situation was even worse, the streets of europe were teaming with girls who had gone there to sell their bodies, a phenomenon which came to be known as the natasha trade. in russia, in the next 8 years, the number of people living in poverty rose to 72 million. the russians decided to stop the gamble they had started 15 years ago with gorbachev, decision which within a few years decreased unemployment rate in russia to a third, doubled the economic growth and reduced the inflation rate which was going. be a three- diigit one into a single digit one. during the same period, the united states ed about 15 trillion dol