Reformers are leaving

Andrei Sharonov was resigned today by German Gref Deputy Andrei Sharonov should leave the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. In any case, two weeks ago, when a resignation application was submitted, Sharonov specified that he would like to leave the civil service on July 9, 2007.

However, Gref pulled with his signature on Sharonov’s statement to the last. On Saturday, the Interfax agency quoted the unnamed representative of Mart: "Currently, Sharonov’s statement is on a vision of Minister Herman Gref." Yesterday, according to the informed sources of the "newspaper", Gref did not transfer an application to the dismissal of his deputy to the government apparatus. According to the government regulations, orders on the resignation of deputy ministers signs the prime minister.

However, Andrei Sharonov no longer has a decisive hardware inhibitory braking. According to unofficial information, Gref decided to release his permanent deputy to Zama in free swimming in large businesses.

How reformers are born

MECTR is losing one of the leading state top managers, known for its liberal reform views. The managerial career Andrei Sharonov began in Komsomol, who delegated him to the People’s Deputies of the USSR. In the Supreme Council, he headed the subcommittee on youth policy. Before Komsomol's death (from May 1990 to August 1991), he managed to work as the secretary of the Perestroika Central Committee of the Komsomol. In August 1991, he was invited to the Government then the RSFSR to head the State Committee for Youth Policy (from 1992 to 1996 - the Committee of the Russian Federation for Youth Affairs). In 1996, he transferred to the Ministry of Economics to the post of head of the Consolidated Department of Social Policy. A year later, Sharonov is already the deputy minister of economics. And finally, in 2000, after the merger of the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade in the Mayrs, he becomes the deputy of Gref, since 2003 - the first (after the liquidation of this position, Sharonov was appointed deputy head of the Merthus - state secretary of the ministry).

Herman Gref immediately entrusts him with firing duties. Not in the sense that Sharonov had to eliminate those who disagree with Gref, but in the fact that for a number of reformist ideas, Sharon could immediately answer his position.

First of all, it was about Gazprom. Back in 2000, Gref’s strategic program, which was not fully approved in the government, was proposed to dismember the gas monopoly into the extractive and transport components. They went even further in Mart. The project of the medium-term program-2003-2005 explicitly stated that Gazprom in its current form has survived the last days. However, President Vladimir Putin intervened in the dispute. In February 2003, at the celebration of the 10th anniversary of Gazprom, he stated that he would not allow Gazprom to dismember. Nevertheless, April 2003, in an interview with the correspondent of the newspaper, Sharonov firmly stated that Gazprom’s plans for restructuring in his ministry would not refuse.

As you know, he had to retreat. The Gazprom section did not happen. On the contrary, it has grown Sibneft. However, Sharonov did not follow the instant resignation. Maybe in the Kremlin they were waiting for another mistake.

With RAO UES was somewhat easier. The opponents of his section lost. On July 1, 2008, electric monopolis will cease to exist. What Sharonov achieved.

Yesterday, a member of the board of RAO UES, Andrei Trapeznikov, noted in an interview with the correspondent of Gazeta that "Sharonov was always distinguished by professionalism and anti -bureaucratism. He never drowned documents of documents in the Yama of Consentrations."

How the reformers go

“This is a big loss for small and medium -sized enterprises,” the President of the “Rossiy of Russia” Sergey Borisov appreciated the possible resignation of Sharonov. In his opinion, Sharonov did at least two important things: he spent a law on small and medium -sized businesses through the State Duma (see certificate on page 11) and reformed the electric power industry.

But the most important thing, according to Borisov, is that Sharonov’s resignation once again indicates the inability of the state to stimulate the work of his top managers. Hence the problems of corruption and unplanned resignations of those who do not want to live on bribes.

In Singapore, Borisov believes, the opposite. Former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yu once achieved that the salary of ministers and other state top managers was 75% of the weighted average income of entrepreneurs and top managers in the private sector. At the same time, the size of the salary of senior officials depends on the growth rate of GDP and private business income. With such salaries, they do not take bribes, and from morning to evening they stimulate GDP growth.

However, apparently, the Goskarier Sharonov ended yesterday. In any case, one of the top managers of the Troika Dialogue does not exclude that today Andrei Sharonov will begin to work in their company, where he will be responsible, apparently, for GR.

In any case, the government becomes smaller in one reformer (not so long ago, a blizzard has left). Moreover, there are no specialists who can prove that the state monopoly by definition gives less profit than a private company. As a result, the last of the reformal Mogican in the government is another former deputy Gref - Arkady Dvorkovich, the head of the Presidential Expert Directorate, who also advocated the Gazprom section four years ago.

Small business will live according to the new law

The State Duma on Friday adopted in third reading the draft law “On the development of small and medium -sized enterprises in the Russian Federation”.

The new law, which should enter into force on January 1, 2008, will replace the actually outdated law "On state support of small business in the Russian Federation." The new document establishes the basic principles of state policy for supporting small and medium -sized enterprises.

According to one of the authors of the bill, the deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism Elena Panina, the document gives clear concepts of micro, small and medium-sized businesses, taking into account two basic criteria. The first is the number of workers. The second is the revenue from the sale of goods (works, services). In particular, companies should now include companies in which no more than 15 people work, not more than 100 people work to small, at least 101 and no more than 250 people. Similar criteria are in force in European countries.

As for state support, it will be consisted of financial, property, information and consulting assistance.

According to the President of the "Opor of Russia" Sergey Borisov, despite the fact that the law is framed in nature, it is important that it determines the policy of state participation in the development of small and medium -sized businesses. “The law very seriously raises the question of the interaction of the state and entrepreneurial unions,” says Sergey Borisov.

How to save top managers in the civil service?

Evgeny Yasin / Scientific adviser to the Higher School of Economics:

The top manager to the top manager is different. Some just have to pay more. And others are important to their ideas that they want to promote, while feeling that they are doing something important and useful for the whole country. But the ideas of Vyugin and Sharonov, apparently, were not relevant to the policy pursued today. In addition, business is generally more interesting now. Therefore, the period when, in connection with the case of Khodorkovsky, the people were scared and ran to the civil service, passed. The reverse process has been outlined.

Igor Jurgens / Chairman of the Coordinating Council of Entrepreneurial Unions of Russia:

So that officials do not leave the civil service, it is necessary to complete the administrative reform, which provided for moral, material, and rotational stimuli. The departure of Vyugin and Sharonov, from my point of view, is nothing more than a demonstration that this reform has not succeeded. As a result, two outstanding officials did not find themselves in the civil service.

Mikhail Delyagin / Director of the Institute of Problems of Globalization:

Firstly, you need to gain managers who work not for the sake of personal benefit, but for the sake of public interest, that is, people with a different type of personality. In addition, I do not see a big tragedy in when someone leaves the civil service to business, and then returns back. Vyugin, for example, is not the first time. Sharonov, I believe, will also return.

Viktor Tulkin / Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Labor and Social Policy (Communist Party faction):

To do this, the public service must prepare personnel for itself, and not draw them from the same business. On the other hand, a similar process goes not only with us. Take the same Schroeder who graduated from his political career and headed the Committee of the shareholders of Gazprom's Daughter. That is, in the capitalism system, the wrapping of business with the authorities (with all the negative consequences like lobbying for personal interests and corruption) is inevitable, and it must be dealt with. But since we have a vector to ensure equal opportunities for development and remuneration for work, we will constantly observe such phenomena.

07/08/2007 / Konstantin Smirnov, the survey was prepared by Alexei Smirnov, the material was published in the "newspaper" No. 122 dated 09.07.2007.