были долги. echelons of the russian elite in the 1990s, so it did through the rest of society, as livingsteinbecause somebody used this opportunity incredibly, the oligarchs, the bureaucracy, some of the intellectual elite for them, it was a tremendous opportunity which they did use, which the... did benefit from, for the majority of the country, it was a disaster. could you have done it in a better way, in a more fair way? everything, everything could be done in a better way, basically, but again, russia is not a czech republic, that's a very different country mentally. if you are looking at some eastern european countries, of course there were different scenarios in different countries, all of them more or less moved towards capitalism, by the same time, most of them managed to avoid that kind of terrible collapse in living standards, at least some of them like slovenia did, for example, tzech republic did, they really managed to find ways which should not so destructive in social terms. the czech republic, formerly part of the soviet block, unlike the russian government, successfully manag