Politics and Government of Russia

AlfaT8 wrote:
Best to keep your enemies close, silencers for Rifles are more pricy, than one for pistol.

Svyatoslavich wrote:And then many people were believing that article on the Finantial Times that appeared a couple of weeks ago, that a new position of a superminister would be created for Kudrin, so he could negotiate Russia's capitulation (giving back Crimea to the Ukraine, abandoning Donbass, withdrawing troops from Syria) in exchange of lifting sanctions...

Famous Russian economist and publicist Mikhail Khazin told on his personal website on the web what awaits the liberals of Russia in the coming years.

The expert writes that the Liberals for 25 years had a serious advantage - they controlled the process of redistribution of property in the Russian Federation. However, in recent years, the liberals have weakened control and were forced to share their right. But the most significant event was the formation of a new government in Russia, as political leaders of the liberal level could not go to the governing bodies.

Of course, not everyone left their posts. Prikhodko and other politicians remained. However, the circle of decisions taken by them has sharply narrowed. As a result, it turns out that the entire system of redistribution of property, which the liberals created over the years, "hung in the air." According to Khazin in the history of Russia there was a very important event that can be met rarely: a very influential group for a short time lost a significant part of its influence and capabilities. Now the consequences are interesting.

Mikhail Khazin is sure that other Russian power groups, offended by the liberals, will begin to "pierce" the assets that were previously controlled by the liberal wing. Those who recently lost assets or are still under the pressure of raider seizures may try to appeal to representatives of other groups to conclude deals. And a significant number of such proposals will be perceived quite positively. 

The economist suggested that in the near future a liberal team would be struck. They can deliberately form a "dirty business" in the spirit of liberals, thoroughly investigate it and show it to the general public. For example, such may be the case for attempts to raid the capture of the company "TogliattiAzot". The main owner of the company at the moment is outside the country, as criminal cases are brought against him. If the abuse of the liberal team is proven, then a whole series of similar cases will arise. And then the purses of the liberals will start shaking very soon and very much. The group will begin to lose money, assets and influence....

kvs wrote:
Nice theory, too bad that it has no empirical evidence to back it.  

Where is this evidence that the sanctions on Russia are so painful that
Russia will capitulate?   The sanctions are a Godsend.   They have destroyed the last vestiges of Yeltsin's distorted capitalism where Russia
became an importer of food and various other vital goods.   Now it produces these products for itself on its own soil.   Please bring more
sanctions.   If Russian companies are cut off from foreign banking completely we will see the CBR purged of Nabiullina and here monetarist
companions.

Also, Russia does not depend on exports.   This is part of the "Russia is a single commodity banana republic" myth/propaganda being
peddled by NATO.

Hole wrote:In the west, this auditors come out with a report every year, moaning about missallocated funds and so on. The governments shrug their shoulders and go on. So... nice post for Kudrin!

GunshipDemocracy wrote:

Hole wrote:In the west, this auditors come out with a report every year, moaning about missallocated funds and so on. The governments shrug their shoulders and go on. So... nice post for Kudrin!

I am convinced Kudrin will keep hand on pulse and keep money tight . he is good at it. But he has no influence on political decisions. And this is correct

Hole wrote:"Factor in that due to a much lower cost base, including labor, building materials, and domestic technology, Russians can build major infrastructure significantly cheaper than the US, in the case of roads, approximately by a factor of 8."

Quote from an article by Patrick Fleming on RI.

Same is true for the military.


Now that the Crimea bridge is ready, the construction of the Sakhalin bridge can be started.

miketheterrible wrote:

I am convinced Kudrin will keep hand on pulse and keep money tight . he is good at it. But he has no influence on political decisions. And this is correct

Or economic too.

MOSCOW, May 22. / TASS /. Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseyev does not exclude that digital financial assets in the future can be admitted to the Russian currency market as monetary units that can be exchanged for rubles for financial transactions in the territory of the Russian Federation. He said this in an interview with the Rossiya 24 television channel .


Why unpredictable courses cryptocurrencies

"There may be an exchange in the future, then the status will be slightly similar to the status of foreign currencies, which are allowed to change in certain places, exchange, store, but not allowed to purchase and sell goods and services," he said. Moiseev noted that in this case either a fixed rate under the contract or flexible, depending on certain factors and on how the exchange will be structured, should be established.

At the same time, Moiseyev noted that the Ministry of Finance maintains a principled position according to which crypto-currencies are not legal means of payment on the territory of Russia.

"We have a means of payment for the ruble, and the ruble can be not only paper, it can be electronic - there are electronic purses in rubles." Any electronic format of the ruble, but it should be a ruble issued by the Central Bank. more than one issuing center, "he explained, noting that the issue of coins is" the issue of something similar to securities. "

Bypass Sanctions
According to Moiseyev, the bill on digital financial assets does not aim at circumvention of sanctions, but it creates such an opportunity.

"First of all, you can talk about certain jurisdictions, which are difficult to raise funds.It is the Republic of Crimea in the first place and the city of Sevastopol.If someone wants to open a cafe there, it is hard for a person to find money outside, cheap money, and holding an ICO [Initial Coin Offering - the primary location of crypto assets], in fact, closes this problem, "Moiseyev explained.

The State Duma at the meeting on Tuesday adopted in the first reading a bill that creates the basis for regulating legal relations in the digital economy. The bill fixes several basic provisions in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation that will allow regulating the market for new objects of economic relations, provide legal conditions for the execution and execution of transactions in the digital environment ("smart contracts", "self-executing transactions") and provide protection to citizens and legal entities on such transactions.

The amendments also introduce the concepts of "digital money", or "crypto currency". At the same time, the main rule is fixed that they are not a legal means of payment.

The draft law, in particular, defines tokens that are issued to attract financing, and establishes the procedure for conducting ICO, and also determines and establishes the legal regime of crypto-currencies and their mining.

Hole wrote:. In the meantime Russia has also build a dozen football stadiums, a kosmodrom (space port) and a few other "small" projects. Not so bad for a "totally corrupt" country which doens´t produce anything.

JohninMK wrote:Helmer on Kudrin. Looks like the Russian State backbone is being stiffened.

http://johnhelmer.org/?p=17750

GarryB wrote:Babchenko is one of the faces of the year for Time magazine didn't you know... a man who with the support of the Ukrainian government faked his own death so that the Russian government could be blamed is being recognised for his contribution to truth justice and the american way in media.

But then Cashyogi is also being honoured for his brutal murder by Saudi Arabia... the guy supported Osama Bin Laden... and many think he was murdered recently for gathering support for opposition to the current leader in Saudi Arabia so he should come out and say it was pre emptive self defence... hahahaha.

I rather suspect the ECHR makes too many more bad calls regarding Russia and they will pull out... they have not had voting rights since 2014 or so and have stopped funding PACE from memory, which they are squealing about, but if they don't get a vote and therefore have no say in electing judges in the ECHR then WTF is the point?