Yaremenko warned that simply discontinuing central planning and opening the country to foreign trade would lead to collapse of consumer goods sectors which could not compete with imports .
Yaremenko was one of the principal economic advisers to Mikhail Gorbachev , last president of the USSR .
president warned that simply discontinuing central planning and opening the country to foreign trade would lead to collapse of consumer goods sectors which could not compete with imports .
Yaremenko was one of the principal economic advisers to Mikhail Gorbachev , last president of the USSR .