Yevgeny Grigoryevich Yasin is a Russian economist. He was the Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n Minister for the Economy between 1994 and 1997. He is currently a research director at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. He is a regular contributor to Ekho Moskvy

Echo of Moscow

Echo of Moscow is a Russian radio station based in Moscow, broadcasting in many Russian cities, in some of the former-Soviet republics , and via the Internet, which some observers describe as "the last bastion of free media in Russia"...

 radio, in which he is a minority shareholder - with 9.5% - while the remainder belongs to the station's staff and Gazprom

Gazprom

Open Joint Stock Company Gazprom is the largest extractor of natural gas in the world and the largest Russian company. Its headquarters are in Cheryomushki District, South-Western Administrative Okrug, Moscow...

, each of which holds a 42.5% stake.