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How to read the articles of Dmitry Medvedev correctly?
The article by Dmitry Medvedev “Socio-economic development of Russia: gaining new dynamics”, which was published in the Academic Journal “Questions of Economics”, met the liberal public with mockery . Assessments, many of which were difficult to count offensive, were built on two reproaches: the fact that the author wants to “not notice” the real problems of the country (in particular, does not speak of corruption at all), and in the fact that he discusses the economy so distant, as if over the past ten years did not take positions in which a person was involved in the most important decisions on the most significant issues of the people's development farms of the country.
Criticism of this kind is typical for politicians who oppon the current government. I will try to approach the article by Medvedev with a smaller emotional fuse and on a completely different side - as a text reflecting the mental and ideological state of the Russian elite at the present stage. In such a projection, the labor of our prime minister clearly emphasizes the three important circumstances characterizing the entire modern official Russian economic doctrine and give an understanding in which direction the country is developing.
First of all, this is an extremely tendential attitude to the current stage of global economic development and a misunderstanding of its historical significance. The author is not trying to doubt that in recent years we are dealing with a full -scale and multi -assemble crisis - a kind of "planetary anomaly."
“The global crisis, which began in 2008 and lasting to the present,” he writes, “forms a new agenda in all leading countries ... Specific tasks that are solved within the framework of this agenda, in each country, are their own, but the acuteness of arising problems that often have no precedents,” since “a high -quality level of instability is observed, sharply reducing the possibilities of predicting even the prediction of even predicting. The near future. " Medvedev believes that this “world crisis, which recently is increasingly called the“ Great Recession ”... comparable in its scale with the Great Depression of the 1930s,” notes that “inequality that did not cause much anxiety in conditions of sustainable and dynamic growth, before our eyes becomes a source of economic and political instability” that the markets are collapsing, “more than ever”. (for example, “In 2015, oil has doubled in almost six months, which is unprecedented in modern economic history”), which in the world does not exist instruments of regulation adequate to modern challenges.
In my opinion, all this rhetoric does not perform a different function, except as a background for banalities such as the statement that "in the past [Russia] it was possible to find answers to global challenges [and] there is no reason to believe that this time the situation will be different." Meanwhile, this whole part is a set of unprovable and sometimes false statements.
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