Exactly how the government will manage the crisis by hand – Moskovsky Komsomolets

Exactly how the government will manage the crisis by hand – Moskovsky Komsomolets

This technique has experienced over the infamous residents Pikalevo

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Vladimir Putin visiting New Year’s Eve White House asked the ministers to go to manual mode economy. “MK” has tried to understand what it is and how it will work.

Photo: Gennady Cherkasov

About two years ago in one of the economic forums between Putin and US economist Paul Krugman has occurred following a dispute. Putin expressed doubt that democracy can cope with the challenges during the economic crisis, as politicians are afraid to take necessary but unpopular decisions: if they have no chance to be elected to a second term.

Krugman said that sense that the strengthening of state control and manual control – a tool for survival. They do not solve the problems of the economy, only soften the social consequences, and also pursue PR purposes. Show that the power in fact, protects the interests of ordinary citizens. In addition, unlimited liability poses a threat to the stability of the entire political system.

However, the fact that Putin is a big fan of the “manual control” it is no secret. For example, in October 2008, the government, which he headed, announced the application of “manual control” to the three priority sectors of the Russian economy: banking, construction and retail sectors.

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How does it work? The brightest story involves a small town Pikalevo in the Leningrad region, where in late 2008 had three core enterprises. Despair people without getting paid for several months, began to block the federal highway. As a result, in June 2009 arrived in Pikalevo “good king and his entourage,” while Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, forcing the owners to sign contracts and pay people money. “You have made hostages to their ambitions, lack of professionalism and greed thousands of people. This is unacceptable. Where the social responsibility of business? “- He said.

Here is a classic example of manual control.

In the yard again and crisis, Putin took” the old. ” “We need to coordinate the work of all ministries and departments, the presidential administration, the Central Bank – need to keep everything under control. – He said at last in this year’s session of the government. – It is necessary to include a manual mode … To make it clear who is responsible for what, what is the situation on the backbone enterprises of the country, as reflected in the level of employment, how to solve social issues, what happens in mono. All these issues should be reflected in the relevant plans and appointed responsible executors ».

We started with simple things. A few days ago, Vladimir Putin, to bring down the hype in the foreign exchange market and save the ruble, personally called the head of one of the state-owned companies, and “asked” to share with the market share of the dollar in revenue. In addition, when the government set up a working group that will monitor the situation in the country: the ruble, rising prices, unemployment, as well as large enterprises. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev returned to the boards of directors and supervisory boards of state-owned companies of senior officials, which he himself had in 2011, when he was president, urged to remove “from government agencies, operating in a competitive environment.” In his version, this “temporary” measure is necessary “because of the need to introduce strict control over the activities of state-owned companies, for their economic performance, the movements of foreign currency …̶ 1;. It is interesting that this statement coincided with the terms of the end of the withdrawal of officials from state-owned companies.