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Mix-Ansicht- Pravda: Die Oligarchen bekommen noch mehr Macht (engl.) - André, 27.12.2003, 19:45
- Re: Pravda: Die Oligarchen bekommen noch mehr Macht (engl.) - lish, 28.12.2003, 14:52
Re: Pravda: Die Oligarchen bekommen noch mehr Macht (engl.)
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Die CSIS veröffentlichte im November ein Memo von Brian D. Taylor zum Thema Oligarchen/Staat. Hier zwei Ausschnitte. Das ganze ist als Artikel 323 im Link abrufbar. Es geht um Putin's Versuche den Staat zu stärken.
... In this policy memo, I argue that the apparent strengthening of the Russian state
under Putin is largely an illusion. Putin has strengthened the Kremlin, but not the state.
The political power of some key actors under his predecessor Boris Yeltsin, particularly
regional leaders and the so-called oligarchs, has diminished. But the ability of the state to
implement reliably and enforce its decisions has not appreciably increased....
State Autonomy and the Oligarchs
Putin’s effort in this sphere of state building is another example of his tendency to win all
the major battles but lose the war. He successfully drove Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir
Gusinsky out of the country, and recently demonstrated that Russia’s richest oligarch,
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, is also fair game for pressure from the state. The constant refrain
that no one is above the law, and that these cases are legal and not political matters,
would sound more convincing if there were not such obvious political reasons behind
these investigations, and if other major businessmen were being scrutinized for similar
offenses.
Under Putin it is not the game that has changed, but some of the players. The clan
politics identified by then-U.S. diplomat Thomas Graham as the dominant characteristic
of the Yeltsin era continue to thrive. The major new player under Putin, of course, is the
faction known as the siloviki, a group largely comprised of officials with a common
background in the power ministries (silovie struktury, hence the name), most notably the
KGB/FSB (Federal Security Service). The key opposing clan is the so-called Family that
was dominant in the late Yeltsin period. The degree of coherence and carefully executed
conspiracies attributed to various clans may be overstated, but there is little doubt that,
like under Yeltsin, politics is dominated by subterranean clashes between competing
groups that unite state officials and big business.
In short, there is no evidence that the state has become more autonomous in the sense
that major policy initiatives are undertaken by state officials independent of private or
sectional interests and motivated largely by calculations about the medium- and longterm
interests of the state. The Russian state as currently constructed inevitably
encourages an inefficient form of crony capitalism. These problems, of course, are not
unique to Russia, but the decline of major independent media under Putin makes solving
the problem that much harder, because a free press plays a key role in exposing corrupt
deals....
<ul> ~ http://www.csis.org/ruseura/ponars/policymemos/pm_index.htm</ul>
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