>and particularly from Russian magazines that were covering the events at the time. Why would those those magazines have particular credibility? Post-Soviet c

>and particularly from Russian magazines that were covering the events at the time. Why would those those magazines have particular credibility? Post-Soviet collapse was a shit show, but it was never going to be anything bug a shit show. They were trying to rebuild a corrupt, decrepit Soviet economy as a modern market-based economy, while at the same time building, from scratch, a modern functioning judicial and a democratic political system.