Five years near the president. Yaroshenko V.N.

“Five years near the President” - memoirs of Viktor Yaroshenko, People's Deputy of the USSR, Minister of External Economic Relations of the RSFSR, trading representative of the Russian Federation in France. Back in the late 80s, the author entered the close circle of the future president of Russia Boris Yeltsin and maintained warm relations with him for many years.

Economist Viktor Yaroshenko, becoming the People’s Deputy of the USSR, immediately joined the Interregional Deputy Group, Which was in opposition to the Soviet leadership. One of its co -chairs was Boris Yeltsin. They coincided in their understanding of the reforms that the country needed-and this was the main thing that connected them.

In this book, the memories of the historical events of the 80s and 90s are intertwined with very personal stories, whose participants were Many famous politicians of that time. Not only Boris Yeltsin, but also Ivan Silaev, Yegor Gaidar, Anatoly Sobchak, Sergey Shakhrai, Lyudmila Narusova. The author is not shy about his addiction. He does not promise the reader to be “over the fight” and is not afraid to give sharp grades. The past for Yaroshenko is still a source of difficult thoughts and intense internal disputes that he dared to make public. Before us are classic memoirs - very controversial and very sincere.