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It
is time for Putin to make up his mind
A complete version of Grigory Yavlinsky's article published in an
abbreviated version in "Forbes", No. 4, July 2004
If you open the newspapers, what are the economic topics
in the headings? Tax problems, social privileges, GNP rates. However, everybody
knows that you can improve the tax system indefinitely, develop new forms
of mortgages and "mop up" banks, but all other measures are pointless
until you resolve once and for all, clearly and unequivocally property
issues. A political and legal estimate of privatisation in the mid-1990s
is the main economic issue today. President Putin should finally make up
his mind. Otherwise nothing will be achieved.
Selling
Out Russia's Forests
By Boris Kagarlitsky, The Moscow Times, July 1, 2004
Russia is bracing itself for the privatization of its forests. The
crucial step in this process will be the new Forestry Code, a draft
of which is to be considered by the State Duma in the near future.
Democracy,
In Putin's Own Words
Editorial, The Moscow Times, October 9, 2003
President Vladimir Putin, in interviews given to foreign
journalists just before and after his recent trip to the United States,
offered his most detailed comments to date on the ongoing Yukos saga and,
more broadly, on the relationship between the state and business.
Human
Capital Is the Basis for Economic Growth
By Griogry Yavlinsky, RTR television channel, "Vesti" programme, October 5, 2003
As we know, economic growth has many factors,
but in most cases we are talking about taxes, the economic structure and
conjuncture.
Grigory
Yavlinsky calls for an amnesty of the privatisation deals of the
1990s
Buro Pravovoi Informatsii, October 2, 2003
According to Yavlinsky, the present economic situation demonstrates
"the need to legitimatise privatisation".
Putin
opposes revision of privatisation results
Gazeta.ru, October 2, 2003
Commenting on the idea of Grigory
Yavlinsky, leader of the Yabloko party, to declare an amnesty
on privatisation, Putin noted that it was necessary to translate
this idea into reality correctly from legal and political points
of view, something which is hard to do.
The
Russian Economy Is Growing, But Not Developing
By Anna Skornyakova, Nezavisymaya Gazeta, October 6, 2003
Yavlinsky was also concerned about the dependency of the Russian
economy on the "pipe", "The impulse from the raw-materials
sector does not spread to other sectors. We don't have an independent
judiciary, independent parliament or mass media, civil control over
secret services, and now are witnessing a merger between business
and the authorities. This system restricts our economic growth and
should be dismantled."
President
Putin: It's a Good Idea, It's a Correct Idea
By Vitaly Ivanov and Alexander Bekker, Vedomosti, September 29, 2003
While in the United States, President Vladimir Putin again spoke
out against renationalisation and approved of the idea of an amnesty
for capital. The Russian tax authorities had criticised this idea
in spring. Putin met teachers and students of the University of
Columbia on September 26. The Russian President was asked about
his attitude to "plans for renationalisation or... proposals...
announced by Grigory Yavlinsky".
Grigory
Yavlinsky: Russian politics is deliberately being transformed into
a farce
Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Tatyana Chesnokova, Rosbalt, September 25, 2003
"This situation has been deliberately created to make less
and less people engage actively in politics and lead more and more
of the population to readily accept decision-making on their behalf
by third parties".
Reforms
that corrupted Russia
By Grigory Yavlinsky, Financial Times (UK), September 3, 2003
In those years two Marxist dogmas, albeit disguised in liberal phraseology,
still shaped economic policy. The first was...
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