Yegor Timurovich Gaidar (; ; 19 March 1956 – 16 December 2009) was a Soviet and Russian economist, politician and author, and was the Acting Prime Minister of Russia from 15 June 1992 to 14 December 1992.
He was best known as the architect of the controversial shock therapy reforms administered in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which brought him both praise and harsh criticism. Many Russians held him responsible for the economic hardships that plagued the country in the 1990s that resulted in mass poverty and hyperinflation among other things, although liberals prai...
Timur Arkadievich Gaidar (; December 8, 1926 — December 23, 1999) was Soviet/Russian rear admiral, writer and journalist. He was supposed to be the prototype for Timur from Arkady Gaidar's book Timur and His Squad that was the inspiration for the Timurite movement.
Gaidar was born in Arkhangelsk, the son of Arkady Gaidar. He graduated from the Leningrad Naval School in 1948 and faculty of journalism of the Lenin Military Political Academy in 1954, served on a submarine of the Baltic Fleet and the Pacific Ocean Fleet. Worked in newspapers from 1957, The Soviet Fleet, The Red Star, a...
Arkady Petrovich Golikov (; ( — October 26, 1941), better known as Arkady Gaidar (), was a Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet children.
Life and career
Gaidar was born in the town of Lgov in Imperial Russia, now in Kursk Oblast, Russia, to a family of teachers. Gaidar spent his childhood in Arzamas. In August 1918, Gaidar became a member of the Bolsheviks, volunteering for the Red Army in December of that year, still aged only 14. During the Russian Civil War, at the age of 16, he became commander of a regiment. He participated in the suppression of sever...
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RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by the Cunard Line. With her running mate ', she provided luxury liner service between Southampton, UK and New York City, USA via Cherbourg, France. She was also contracted for over twenty years to carry the Royal Mail as the second half of the two ships' weekly express service.
While being constructed, in the mid-1930s by John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, she was known as Hull 552 but when launched, on 27 September 1938, she was named in honour of Queen Elizabeth, who was then Queen Consort to King George VI and in ...
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This question was "closed as not a real question". Obviously it's a real question, and I would disbelieve anyone's explicit assertion (as opposed to this rude sarcastic boilerplate notice) that it appeared not to be a real question.
Can someone explain the real reason for the closing?
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When should I use "as part of", and when "as a part of"?
I think your question has a lot of potential, and if you give some time to editing it, I think it has a good chance of being re-opened. Here are my thoughts about it, after my initial reading.
I would have closed this as "not constructive" before "not a real question." To start with, the crux o...
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