Economist Yuri Maltsev, an adviser to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev before a 1989 defection to the United States, died in January 2023. In April 2013 Maltsev spoke with Carolina Journal Radio about the “curse” of Russia’s abundant natural resources.
Former Gorbachev adviser Yuri Maltsev discusses ‘curse’ of Russia’s natural resources in 2013
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