In the economy

Time, back!

April 20, 2006. Maxim Blanc

In not so distant times, any report-both oral, and even more so, written-it was customary to flare quotes from the "classics of Marxism-Leninism", and ideally, references to the latest decisions of the party and government. The materials of congresses and plenums in those days occupied, as it is now customary to say, the upper lines in the lists of bestsellers, since without their mention and the venerable scientists, and even schoolchildren (not to mention the party-economic nomenclature) was difficult, if not impossible.

For some time, when visiting various kinds of completely liberal events-round tables, conferences and other forums-no, no, and you catch yourself on an unpleasant sense of the unreality of what is happening. As if there were no last 15 years. Unless the “general line” is determined not by the “leading and guide”, but by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin - this is how it is customary to write it, all words with a capital letter. You feel an acute feeling of awkwardness-as if I caught a person for some shameful activity. But he did not catch - they themselves go to the stands and "clean themselves under Putin."

Here, let's say, Alexander Shokhin is a serious, it would seem, man, was always listed in liberals and advocates of democratic freedoms, the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, finally. Alexander Nikolaevich performed at the beginning of the week at the XV reporting and election congress of the above organization, which was once called the "trade union of the oligarchs", and now what kind of oligarchs-so, employers.

The audience expected from the congress in general and from Shokhin in particular the criticism of the current course, at least on the grounds that the report “Investment climate in Russia”, prepared by a group of experts led by Evgeny Yasin, specifically for the event, was maintained, to put it mildly, in pessimistic tones. You should not dwell in detail on the ideas set forth in the report, since Evgeny Yasin repeatedly expressed them, including on the pages of the hedgehog . Another thing is more interesting - how the head of the RSPP managed to use practically nothing from this report. And those problems that he nevertheless mentioned, to blame the government of the government. At the beginning of his lengthy speech, he hastened to declare: “We have a complete understanding of the strategic goals and objectives of the country's development with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.” Further - more. “We are grateful to President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin for (“ our happy childhood ”-I want to continue for the speaker, but by some miracle he brought the phrase to the end) a political decision that shot many concern of the business on the renewal of land ownership.”

In general, after Schokhin’s speech, a persistent feeling arose that after the issue of buying out land under industrial enterprises was resolved, the main “headache” of Russian business was the speedy implementation of presidential national projects. Alexander Nikolaevich has repeatedly returned to this topic. At the beginning of his speech: “The RSPP has something to offer. As the recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin showed, the business is ready to significantly participate in the implementation of priority national projects. ” And in the end: “We will take an active part in solving priority social problems in the field of national projects in which we see impulse to large -scale structural reforms that allow us to translate many issues of state social policy to a market basis.” Obviously, Shokhin wrote (or wrote) a speech in the hope that Vladimir Putin would sit on the presidium, but the president did not go to the congress, and it turned out completely stupid.

Unfortunately, even if the business fulfills and extensions all national projects, the investment climate will hardly improve from this. And about investment growth, which began in 2002-2003, according to the authors of the report prepared under the leadership of Yasin, so far you can only dream. Meanwhile, the business climate can be evaluated in real numbers (which is made in the report). So, if the investment activity of the private sector in Russia was preserved, it would provide the growth rate of industrial production in 2005 at the level of 7.7-10% instead of the current 4.0, and GDP growth rates at 10.2-12.6% instead of 6.2.

Listening to Shokhin, I involuntarily remembered the “Talk to Comrade Lenin” by Vladimir Mayakovsky:

Comrade Lenin,
I report to you

Not in service
but to your liking.

Comrade Lenin,
Add
will
Made
And it is already being done.

We illuminate, put on poverty and explosion,
worships
Premotion
coal and ores ...

And next to it,
Of course,
many,
many
different
Dryan and nonsense.

True, the poet wrote this five years after the death of Vladimir Ilyich, a year before his own suicide. Maxim Blanc

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