The way out of the impasse

From the editorial office. Tonight, the inauguration of the mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin will take place tonight. A number of high guests are expected at the event - President of the Russian Federation, Mitri Medvedev, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill and others. But Yuri Luzhkov personally will not be able to congratulate the successor - he gives a lecture on “Development of Moscow and the Renaissance of Russia” at the International University. Therefore, the event will be held without it. On the day of the inauguration of the new mayor, the Russian magazine discusses with the waste of Sobyanin and his statements about the priority areas of activity of the city hall. Comments the event for RSA Political scientist Mikhail Remizov .

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The priorities of the new mayor were indicated at a meeting with the president and at today's speech in the Moscow City Duma. The key word of today's performance, it seems to me, was the word "audit". Any new head of the region is forced to “accept business” first, but in this case we can expect that it will be entering the affairs with direct administrative and legal conclusions.

Another important emphasis is the mention of the possibilities lost in recent years and the dead end model of the development of the city. Luzhkovskaya “stability” turned out to be a time of accumulation of systemic problems , and sometimes, just grandiose blockages that have to be disassembled. And since it is about systemic problems, it would not be correct to approach them without a general development strategy. Therefore, it is very important that the audit of the Luzhkovsky inheritance be accompanied by the study of complex alternatives-in urban planning and transport policy, in budgetary financial policy, in social and migration policy, and so on.

By the way, those statements that Sobyanin made by migration policy could indicate one of the milestones of this new strategy. A massive influx of low -skilled labor from the poorest CIS countries is a serious factor in the archaization and degradation of the urban environment and labor market. In fact, we are talking about the formation of a new slave ledge, which is least compatible with modernization, labor mechanization and the like. Yuri Luzhkov also repeatedly spoke about the problem of immigration, but this did not lead to an improvement in the situation. At the same time, the mayor of Moscow clearly or implicitly transferred responsibility to the federal government, which determines quotas for foreign labor. This was a certain cunning. Because the main problem was not quotas determined by the federal government - these quotas at the moment are simply an ineffective regulatory instrument - and the interests of the leaders of the Moscow construction complex, Moscow housing and communal services structures, and so on. In Moscow, the priority of the interests of business over the interests of citizens was strictly acted . Mass immigration is one of the consequences of such a policy.

I am not inclined to think that this policy will change while it is too much sewn into the prevailing system of relations. But the very fact that, as one of his priorities, Sergei Sobyanin designated overcoming migration distortion and protecting the interests of Muscovites in the labor market, causes respect.

Probably, there is another not declared, but quite obvious priority of the new head of Moscow. This is the prevention of a small civil war in the capital, into which the redistribution of power and property can develop. I think that Sobyanin’s reputation as a tough and consistent leader should help in this. In the case of the manifestation of these qualities, the Moscow elite will quickly swear allegiance to the new mayor.