On Wednesday evening, Russia's government-run Channel One devoted an hour of prime time to a raucous talk show about an impoverished family that has become a reluctant national symbol of the issue.

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As a recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, Yunnus began offering microloans to impoverished people in Bangladesh in 1976, thereby empowering them to become economically self-sufficient and proving the microcredit model that has now been replicated around the world.

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