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New economic thinking
In the next newspaper text, ex-oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky draws the future of modernization in the most gloomy colors, but calls citizens to action. In principle, all this is banality. True, it is strange to hear criticism of the “Policy and Economics of the Pipe” from a person who made a state on a “pipe”.
Write a column about the column is an extremely controversial genre, but in this case, it seems, permissive. The fact is that the most famous prisoner of Russia Mikhail Khodorkovsky again performed in the press. This time, his column was released in the newspaper Vedomosti and was dedicated to the imperious “scream”. The general meaning of the reasoning of the former businessman is that the return of Vladimir Putin to the presidential chair brought disappointment of the thinking part of the population and on modernization can be placed.
The reasoning itself seems to be common, at least, many people reasoned. Including the author of this text. What modernization, if traces of institutional reforms during the period of Putin’s rule can be found with difficulty, and those few attempts to reduce something radically in general failed. So, pension reform and reform of monetization of benefits failed, military reform started in essence only under Dmitry Medvedev and what its fate will be difficult to predict. The issue with judicial reform has not been resolved at Putin (and did not even resolve). A crushing blow was inflicted on other institutions - parliament, parties and the government, and so poorly functioning, turned into a parody of themselves.
The author himself does not pretend to be innovative (“that political decisions and events of the end of September could not add confidence in the existing political system and personalities that personify it, from the country's citizens who have preserved human dignity, everything is said to me”), therefore, the text should contain a strong reversal at the end.
The recipe that the author of the column offers also looks like a trick. Setting the possibility for the creative class to integrate into the "Economics and Pipe Policy", the author offers a choice: to leave Russia or change the system. Khodorkovsky does not like the first option and he offers the activation of civil activity. “The main thing is to act! To unite and defend their civil rights, albeit at the lowest - municipal, courtyard level, since this is an action, this is experience, it is a minimal one, but the result, ”writes Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
The former owner of a large oil company complains that the government sits on a pipe and does nothing to change the structure of the economy. To talk about what would happen if Khodorkovsky had not been imprisoned, is an ungrateful business. However, there are some doubts that become the Khodorkovsky authorities or even continue to pump oil, the modernization of the national economy would be included in its priorities.
Yes, Yukos was almost the first to sponsor high -quality educational projects (RSU) and conduct the Internet to schools. Yes, one way or another, any major business is engaged in modernization (purely technological management). Yes, there are quite a lot of the chances that it was Yukos to become the first major company to invest in high -tech industries.
However, Khodorkovsky, at the head of the Yukos, would definitely not talk about the “left turn” or advocate for the appearance of “generation m”. A businessman is interested in the process of making money. And Mikhail Borisovich earned money for oil. That is, at the expense of "Economics and Piper Policy." And I must say that I did this before the famous events of October 2003 is quite successful. Yukos had his own “faction” of lobbyists in the State Duma and controlled mayors and city meetings in the cities of presence, together with other transajors, oil production successfully resisted the state’s attempts to increase the tax burden, had exits to senior officials.
On a ten -year anniversary in April 2003, Yukos was congratulated by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov in absentia. The head of the President of Putin, Alexander Voloshin, Minister of Energy, Igor Yusufov, Minister of Education Vladimir Filippov, the head of Transneft, Semen Weinstok, was present in the hall. Before the defeat of the Khodorkovsky empire, months remained.
However, in the life of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Putin happened with the dreams and the ultrasound. The result was a magical almost rebirth from the “oligarch-row -pers” into a citizen (or even a citizen), who is bewitching about the development and well-being of the country. Dostoevsky of our days turned out.