Word: corporativist
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...Illarionov: The strengthening of the corporativist state model and setting up favorable conditions for quasi-state monopolies by the state itself hurt the economy. Like Gazprom purchasing Sibneft, and another state monopoly purchasing other private company. The state generated some $30 billion in debt to do just that. Or take the case of RAO UES (the electricity monopoly) buying a sizable part of the Power Machines Plant. When the state unraveled Yukos, officials insisted it was a single such case rather than a trend. But it soon became obvious that Yukos was not a single case, that this concerns...
...Illarionov: The process of this state evolving into a new corporativist (sic) model reached its completion in 2005. Quantitative changes have evolved into qualitative ones. The Freedom House best summed it up six months ago, when it downgraded Russia to "completely unfree" from "partially unfree." My job assumed the ability to hold free public discussions of ongoing processes. My willing suspension of this ability would have been a gross dereliction of official and professional duties on my part. I chose to resign instead...
...action does look like stealing state funds on a multi-billion scale. This is just one example of many. Cabinet members or key Presidential Staff executives chairing corporation boards or serving on those boards are the order of the day in Russia. In what Western country-except in the corporativist state that lasted for 20 years in Italy-is such a phenomenon possible? Which, actually, proves that the term "corporativist" properly applies to Russia today. We are witnessing aggression on the part of quasi-state run corporations against whatever private businesses capable of generating cash flows. In fact, this aggression...
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