Link: http://news.scotsman.com/world/Legacy-of-the-man-who.5936732.jp

IT IS not surprising that Russian reactions to the recent death of Yegor Gaidar, the wunderkind who had a meteoric rise – and fall – as communism fell apart, have been divided along the same lines that have divided the country since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. His comrades among the reformers of the chaotic, heady and hungry 1990s eulogised a brave and far-seeing hero of "shock therapy" who set Russia on its rocky road to a free market economy. His detractors, including legislators who refused a motionADVERTISEMENTfor a minute's silence in the Duma, accused him of serving the West, undermining the Russian state and ushering in all the woes and inequities that have befallen Russia.