Career notes: recently appointed as the advisor to the Big 8 group, replacing Alexander Livshits...Putin’s current economic advisor... headed the independently run Institute for Economic Analysis from June 1994 until recently... fired from the Economic Analysis and Planning group in February 97 for “violation of work discipline”... known as being a “constant and outspoken critic of the government”and a “reputedly radical liberal”... likes to predict economic turnarounds and reversals every two years or so... has profound insights such as “inflation will rise and the ruble will fall.”

Minor League Notes: graduated in 1983 from Leningrad University in Economics... 1992-1994 served as the first deputy director of the Center for Economic Reforms