 Complete the following phrase:  Since the USSRs collapse, Russia faced many problems that free market proponents in 1992 did not expect. Among other things, 25 of the population lived below the poverty line, life expectancy had fallen, birthrates were low, and the GDP was halved. There was a sharp increase in economic inequality between 19881989 and 19931995, with the Gini ratio increasing by an average of 9 points for all former socialist countries. These problems led to a series of crises in the 1990s, which nearly led to the election of Yeltsins Communist challenger, Gennady Zyuganov, in the 