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DR. YURI MALTSEV, Professor of Economics at Carthage College in Wisconsin, held various government and research positions in Moscow, Russia. Before defecting to the U.S. in 1989, he was a member of a senior Soviet economics team that worked on President Gorbachev's reforms package of perestroika. Before he was he was a Chief Consultant of the USSR Bank for Foreign Trade. Dr. Maltsev was a Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, a federal research agency. Dr. Maltsev may be the only person to have briefed senior leaders on both sides during the last stages of the Cold War. He testified before the U.S. Congress and appeared on CNN, PBS News Hour, C-Span, CBC and other television and radio programs. He has authored five books and over a hundred articles published in The Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, Washington Times, San Diego Union Tribune, and Journal of Commerce, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Seattle Times and others. Dr. Maltsev has built a reputation for accurately identifying the right economic trends and political developments. Dr. Maltsev earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Moscow State University, and his Ph.D. in Labor Economics at the Institute of Labor Research in Moscow, Russia.