Death Of An Empire - Episode 4

Jan 28, 2014, 10:15 AM

Episode 4 - Yeltsin's era and economic collapse (1990s)

Episode four of ‘Death of an Empire’ focuses on the age of Boris Yeltsin and the economic collapse of the new Russian Federation. Seamus visits the Statue park of Soviet times and explores how things changed. He speaks with Nonna Fomenko who raised her daughter during the massive inflation of 1992 when people were made destitute. “My neighbours knocked on my door and said, there are eggs in the department store, and we all go there, and there was a long queue there” Nonna Fomenko. We hear from the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gerry Collins on Yeltsin’s Russia.