It's only from the outside that all officials look the same. In fact, severe inequality reigns in the domestic “tops”. Take, for example, the government. The castes there are no worse than in medieval India. Unless there are no untouchables. Above -...

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then only from the outside all the officials look the same. In fact, severe inequality reigns in the domestic “tops”. Take, for example, the government. The castes there are no worse than in medieval India. Unless there are no untouchables. Above - the "white bone" of the power ministers. Next come the sectoral autocrats of federal significance. Well, the leaders of institutions that are not mandatory for the power vertical modestly occupy the lower steps of the Russian Olympus. The arbiters of the fate of the country notice them only during the next corruption scandal. Or, conversely, to resolve individual delicate problems. As, for example, they remembered on the eve of the general increase in tariffs about the Ministry for Antimonopoly Policy ...

Minister for Antimonopoly Policy and Entrepreneurship Support Ilya Yuzhanov can hardly be called a statesman. He is unable to influence the announced increase in tariffs or to crush monopolies that are harmful to the country. It's not even about the scale of power. By the way, the minister has quite enough of them. Any other head of the antimonopoly agency would long ago have become a leading political figure.

Yuzhanov, a long-liver of the White House, has not yet been noticed in particular militancy. For nothing that "St. Petersburg". In any case, most of the Russian "octopuses" are still in good health. In contrast, by the way, from small and medium-sized businesses, whose interests Yuzhanov's ministry should protect concurrently.

Simply put, if the MAP intervened in the quarrels of "economic entities", then in a rather strange way. Some citizens who were not experienced in big politics even got the impression that the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy openly played along with some of the most “equidistant” magnates.

For example, at the same time, MAP managed to approve the absorption of the lion's share of the country's aluminum market by Rusal and strictly point out the inadmissibility of such actions to the head of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company, Mr. Makhmudov. And the epic with the accounts of the Moscow government? In the opinion of the Mapovites, the transfer of capital funds to the Bank of Moscow was nothing more than their malicious monopolization. But the concentration of seventy percent of domestic petrochemistry in the infamous Sibur was demonstratively ignored by Yuzhanov's subordinates. Well, what, let's say, did the MAP officials do when they held a tender for the sale of a block of shares in TNK? The answer is as simple as an overdue promissory note: they legally withheld INTERROS's bid, as a result of which Alfa won.

But in the important matter of supporting the long-suffering Russian entrepreneurship, the MAP does not play along with anyone. That is, no one at all. They, these same Russian entrepreneurs, completely do without Yuzhanov's support, hiding their income and spending hundreds of millions of dollars on the notorious "overcoming bureaucratic barriers."

Connoisseurs of the Russian political behind the scenes explain the strangeness of the behavior of the fighters against monopolies by the peculiarities of the character of the minister himself. It turns out that the main Russian antimonopolist is a gentle and benevolent person by nature. He is simply sorry to crush some domestic monopolies. Otherwise, God forbid, one would have to assume the minister's personal interest in the outcome of some economic disputes. And so - everything is clear. You can't argue with the dictates of the soul. And our legislation does not provide for them. Unfortunately…