Главная политика и диалогические задачи считаю развитие России как свободного демократического государства.

Мы довольно часто произносим эти слова, однако глубинный смысл, ценности и свободу и демократии.

Мы с вами с вами воздействием, который я recently saw on my colleague Sean Spice,

who is a former economic adviser to Russia's acting Prime Minister Yegol Guidar,

chief economist adviser to Russian Prime Minister Victor Chenyomidin

and chief economic adviser to Vladimir Putin.

Dr. Andrey Ilarionov, welcome to America first.

You are very welcome. You have an illustrious resume.

I have three pages worth of your qualifications in front of me.

We do not have many people with your prior access inside the Kremlin,

speaking out on American media regarding the events occurring in Ukraine.

So let's start at the beginning. Will you walk us through our millions of listeners and viewers across the country,

your background before you came to the United States, your qualifications,

you've studied in the UK and Austria at Stanford University.

So may I ask you just to introduce yourself to our listeners?

I'm economist by my training and I spent most of my time as economist

studying the economic policy and advising on economic policy.

You mentioned some of the people whom I advise to.

For almost six years I was economic adviser to current Russian President.

And that time Russia was able to have a pretty remarkable economic growth

in the double GDP of the country and GDP per capita within 10 years.

It was a little economic miracle for the Russian economy.

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