[1] During this time Saltykov was regarded as being a key member of Yegor Gaidar's reform team.
[2] He acknowledged at one point that the Russian middle class was being decimated by the government's economic policies.
[3] Although Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin initially retained most of Gaidar's original team, it ended up disintegrating by March 1993, with Saltykov stepping down from the deputy premiership that month.
[4] In March 1996, in his capacity as science and technology minister, Saltykov visited a conference with NATO discussing increased scientific cooperation between Russia and the bloc.
[6] He was dismissed as science minister in August 1996, at which point the ministry was downgraded to a state committee.