Club "November 4" - successor to the "Serafimovsky Club"

On September 26, 2005, the presentation of the club "November 4" took place in Moscow. The authors of the article "Drawing of the Moscow land", published in the magazine "Expert" (number 37, 2005), Andrei Gromov and Maxim Rubchenko, call "November 4" the successor of the " Serafimov Club" and advertise it in every possible way.

In the time that has passed since the publication of the manifesto of the "Serafimov Club", the authors write, much has changed, but the text of the manifesto has not lost its relevance. "Russia did not have, and still does not have, a strategy: neither the authorities nor society have been able during this time to sketch out not only a blueprint of the Moscow land, but even its most approximate contours. The "politics of fear" has not gone away and continues to determine all activities governments. We are all still afraid of inflation, falling oil prices, the strengthening and depreciation of the ruble, even trying to scare us with a default. New ones have been added to the old fears, and first of all, the fear of the "orange" revolution. all its strength, in fact, does not determine the agenda, taking up all-round defense. As a result, all the necessary decisions are postponed until the arrival of future generations of politicians " . At the same time, none of the opposition forces, A. Gromov and M. Rubchenko add, is also unable to present any real strategy. And the newly formed club "November 4" is just called upon to develop and formalize "Russia's development strategy" .

“The November 4th Club is no longer a meeting of publicists ,” the authors continue. “ The logic of political life today has brought there a real political elite from governors Zelenin, Khloponin, Boos to the heads of Duma committees .... And the club began to work ... with the presentation of the draft economic doctrine of Russia" .

Then A. Gromov and M. Rubchenko briefly outline this project, the main idea of ​​which is a sharp acceleration of economic growth in order to increase the volume of national GDP to 3.5-4 trillion dollars in 20 years. “High economic growth rates, according to the authors of the doctrine, can be ensured by an active industrial policy aimed at stimulating investment growth and developing the domestic market ,” they write. “ The tools of such a policy should be, in particular, a change in tax and customs policy through the introduction of significant benefits for priority sectors, development of a system of lending to key sectors of the domestic economy, expansion of refinancing of the banking sector, state participation in the development of sectors of the economy with the greatest growth potential: housing construction, oil refining, production of textiles, furniture, footwear, and the automotive industry .

"This is a preliminary drawing ... of what we want to see our country in twenty or thirty years ," the authors of the article conclude.

Sources

• Gromov A., Rubchenko M. Drawing of the land of Moscow // Expert. 2005. No. 37.