“Destruction of state corporations": what will the new privatization in Russia lead to

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The proposal of the head of the Antimonopoly Service, Igor Artemyev, “to destroy state corporations to increase competition”, will have very serious consequences. Such ideas are not taken from nowhere, it is obvious that Artemyev was recommended at a very high level to voice them. So, apparently, we really have almost “arrived”.





Here is what a government official said:

It is necessary to destroy Russian state corporations, transfer them to other organizational forms, to joint-stock companies. Since state corporations today are approved by official federal law, they should become ordinary joint stock companies without privileges. Then there will be competition.


Let's call a spade a spade. By itself, a change in organizational form is in no way capable of increasing competition. What will improve due to the corporatization of Rosatom, Rostec, RosNANO or Vnesheconombank? Nothing, except that they will come under the control of a narrow circle of people with the appropriate capital and influence, in other words, the oligarchs.

In fact, the head of the Antimonopoly Service calls for the final privatization of the remnants of state property. State corporations control no more than 10% of Russian economicsbut these are her most delicious pieces. For example, Rostec includes enterprises engaged in the production of civilian and military helicopters, trucks and cars, aircraft engines and other aircraft equipment, small arms and ammunition, air defense and electronic warfare systems, electronic components and much more.

RosNANO Corporation has gathered under the wing of the state a large number of specialized enterprises that are developing in the field of nanomaterials, optics and electronics, medicine and pharmaceuticals, improving energy efficiency, etc. Rosatom is the country's pride that has managed to maintain Russia's leadership in the nuclear field. energy. By the way, the Northern Sea Route was recently transferred to this corporation, which immediately led to certain thoughts.

By themselves, state corporations are not a panacea. They said a lot of fair criticism regarding the inefficiency of their activities, about the monstrously inadequate salaries and bonuses of top managers. But in the realities of our peripheral capitalism, only state-owned corporations with budgetary support are at least somehow able to compete with Western multinationals.

Well, the privatized Roskosmos will not be able to compete with Ilon Mask, independently create and put into orbit 600 satellites of the Sphere grouping. Rosneft alone is not able to develop the Arctic. It is impossible today without state funding to revive the civilian aircraft industry and dream of competing with Boeing and Airbus.

The result of their own swimming will be a natural bankruptcy and liquidation, or sale to foreign investors. By the way, now state-owned corporations are not subject to the insolvency law, but after corporatization they will, and all new owners will make all decisions, without regard to the country's needs.

And do not tell tales about the incredible efficiency of private owners who will come and do everything as they should. We already passed this in the nineties, we saw. Double two was in the two thousandth with the privatization of RAO UES, which was also conducted by Anatoly Chubais. Are payments for electricity less due to “competition in the market”? By the way, Anatoly Borisovich now heads RosNANO and previously announced the need for privatization of this corporation. Rumor has it that the ideologist of "market reforms" is associated with friendly relations with the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Igor Artemyev.

Instead of a mobilization model of the economy, under a plausible pretext, we slip a recipe for its guaranteed collapse in the hands of future "effective owners." In the context of Western sanctions, Russia needs a centralized and planned management based on a powerful public sector. Bored mantras about "competition" and the "invisible hand of the market" are from the evil one. As for the real low efficiency and other problems of state corporations, these are claims to their leadership and supervisory bodies. Work better.
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  1. -7
    1 September 2019 12: 02
    ... Well, the privatized Roscosmos will not be able to compete with Ilon Mask, independently create and put into orbit 600 satellites of the Sphere grouping. Rosneft alone is not able to develop the Arctic. It is impossible today without state funding to revive the civilian aircraft industry and dream of competing with Boeing and Airbus.

    Elon Musk is a private trader to the roots of his hair. The history of Boeing is completely private, without the slightest share of the state, has 100 years of development, many ups and downs, including downs due to the "participation" of the US Parliament (in 1934). And there will be no sense in Russia until the state ceases to "participate" in business development. And the fact that they steal on the black-because just and steal 99% "great statesmen", and not private traders.
    1. +3
      1 September 2019 16: 37
      The nuance is that now is not 1934, so corporations will quickly be "eaten" without government support. Special cases may be different, the main thing is to abandon dogmas and make decisions in accordance with specific circumstances, and not on the basis of theoretical ideas - even about capitalism, even about socialism. The author is right, there is a problem.
    2. +1
      2 September 2019 08: 29
      In Ilona, ​​your Mask, billions of state are thrown in. money, but where is the result, expressed in long-term break-even activities? These billions are poured in precisely because of the "effective" work of "effective" private managers, covering losses.
      Boeing was generally "scared" by the efficient work of private owners. Due to stupid greed, the project of a new airliner with the MAX prefix was not properly implemented.
      Arms private corporations amicably sawing state money, creating tombs like Zamvolt, a new aircraft carrier, a new F35 fighter.
      It’s impossible to set the example of the work of private companies in the United States, since potentially the Fed, for the time being, will lend a huge amount of money to the US state, and this state has the opportunity to swap these grandmothers into private traders in the same amounts. This can not be said about companies in Russia, because the ruble is a derivative of the US dollar, and any private company can be brought to intentional bankruptcy, redeemed and, if necessary, destroyed. In the future, this is exactly what is prepared for Russian state corporations. After all, they are currently direct and serious competitors to private corporations in the West.
  2. +1
    1 September 2019 17: 13
    You are right, everything was created long ago by Boeings and other companies, which, without the participation of the state, became what they are. wassat
    Why do these small splashes and waves of state regulation? The main thing is to stop regulating less or to completely open all borders for business. fellow
    Indeed, all over the world, not a single state interferes in the affairs of companies, and does not protect the national producer - neither large nor small. bully
    Business people never travel with state delegations and do not conclude any agreements. feel

    Bam, the best product entered the market and won without any lobby, bribes, connections and contracts. lol

    Who needs this finished product? The main thing is a lot of different pipes, small and large, and other gadgets for transporting raw materials and semi-finished products.
    After all, everything else can be bought, good if not new, then maybe not well-worn - both civilian and military aircraft, and cars, and engines, and so on ...
    1. +1
      1 September 2019 20: 43
      Indeed, all over the world, not a single state interferes in the affairs of companies, and does not protect the national producer - neither large nor small.

      Tell it to Trump. He will laugh long and hard. Or Ilona Mask. He, of course, will not laugh. Not to laugh. The grace period for government subsidies is ending. And he is unlikely to want to lose billions of state support.
      1. 0
        9 September 2019 15: 06
        We all understand perfectly well - where are the "effective" privatized ZIL and AZLK? And where the USSR is, ... they were privatized to zero.
    2. 0
      2 September 2019 15: 31
      You are far from realities! One American president, even late at night, called the late Yeltsin about selling chicken legs.
      1. 0
        2 September 2019 20: 57
        Did Boris Nikolaevich sell ham to the American president at night? wassat Nonsense.
        Maybe it's the other way around, and he was just trying to extort money? Yes
  3. -1
    1 September 2019 18: 01
    Quote: Bitter
    Indeed, all over the world, not a single state interferes in the affairs of companies, and does not protect the national producer - neither large nor small. bully
    Business people never travel with state delegations and do not conclude any agreements.

    Tell It To Donald Trump wink
    1. 0
      1 September 2019 20: 44
      I'm sorry, you got ahead of me. I did not see what you already answered.
    2. 0
      9 September 2019 15: 07
      This is irony, banter.
  4. 0
    1 September 2019 18: 02
    Quote: Igor Pavlovich
    And in Russia there will be no sense until the state ceases to "participate" in business development.

    Liberal nonsensesmile
  5. -1
    1 September 2019 18: 05
    Quote: Bitter
    After all, everything else can be bought, good if not new, then maybe not very well-worn - both civilian and military aircraft, and cars, and engines, and so on ...

    Is it such a subtle irony or just stupid?
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    2. +1
      2 September 2019 00: 54
      Well, if it can be called thin, then, practically, from the first to the last letter. hi
    3. 0
      9 September 2019 15: 09
      Yes, this is irony ... From anger and hatred towards those who ruined everything and everything.
  6. DPN
    +4
    1 September 2019 18: 19
    Will lead to further stratification of the people. The first Soviet people accepted calmly, because they understood nothing. Now the youth is smarter.
    1. +2
      2 September 2019 01: 12
      ... because I didn’t understand anything.

      - and he was gone.

      Now the youth is smarter.

      - she won’t miss her penny, the game conditions have changed.
  7. 0
    1 September 2019 20: 04
    There are a lot of people who think that Boeing is a private company and has nothing to do with the state. But this is one of the main pillars of the American military-industrial complex. Well, if you find fault with the words, then yes, Boeing is a private trader, but in fact, through lobbyists and "retired government officials" they have merged with the state. So Boeing isn't exactly a bad example.
    We would have a normal national idea for the development of the country. Rather - IDEA! For which our people will go forward. In the meantime, with us -

    Man to man is a wolf.

    и

    Spit on your neighbor, shit on the bottom.

    Personally, I would have thrown off a pretty penny for cloning Peter 1 or Stalin. It was very good for them to appoint personalities, such as this Artemyev or Chubais, to the necessary posts in sawmills and mines. Now they would have looked harmoniously somewhere on the construction sites of the infrastructure of the same SevMorPuti. And if they are left in their posts, then stopudovo they will make another privatization with vouchers.
    The joke was remembered:

    A man tells another man:
    - But our boss turned out to be a vampire!
    - Why do you think so?
    - Yes, they injected an aspen stake into his chest, and he died ...
    1. 0
      2 September 2019 11: 22
      I agree 100%. Give, Russia!

  8. +2
    1 September 2019 20: 48
    The WTO found illegal US government support for the production of the Boeing 777X.

    https://ria.ru/20161128/1482351192.html

    Oh, how in the West the state does not interfere in the affairs of "private" companies.
  9. 0
    1 September 2019 20: 51
    New privatization in Russia will strengthen the feudal system!
  10. +2
    2 September 2019 08: 25
    Gref sits in the only reliable (relatively) Sberbank and thinks how bad everything is there, and he urgently needs to privatize it. Chubais also dreams of privatizing Rusnano. That's right, privatization took place, we know how
    "the market regulates everything." Now the WHOLE economy, and the country as well, rests on state-owned enterprises and government orders.
  11. +5
    2 September 2019 08: 57
    If anyone wants his own Boeing to appear in Russia, then let him create it with private money. And everything will be fair. Boeing did not privatize state-owned factories, but started from scratch, so let the current "managers" start on their own, and not grab the people's property created by the hands of millions of ordinary workers and engineers, if they are so smart and agile ...
  12. +1
    2 September 2019 11: 21
    Why, why ... For 30 years, we have been observing the fruits of the work of Gaidar and Chubais.
  13. +2
    2 September 2019 12: 58
    Swipe to the ruble, hit a dime.

    I have not been a FAS proposal for a long time. This service offered a lot of things. But...
  14. 0
    2 September 2019 15: 11
    Artemyev must be shot together with Chubais. And faster ...
    1. +2
      2 September 2019 15: 45
      "To the felling", "to shoot" - may such an unprepared person read and decide that Russia is a terrible country. And you will be very mistaken - you will not even be fined for such calls.
      Irresponsibility corrupts. And the country's reputation is so damaging.
      1. +3
        2 September 2019 16: 46
        In terms of the extermination of the people, both Chubais and Artemyev have long surpassed the Stalinists. In any other country they would have been imprisoned for life long ago, and in China, definitely, they were shot. So do not protect them. Only due to the reforms of Chubais, 20 million people died.
  15. +3
    7 September 2019 10: 35
    Quote: Dzafdet
    In terms of the extermination of the people, both Chubais and Artemyev have long surpassed the Stalinists. In any other country they would have been imprisoned for life long ago, and in China, definitely, they were shot. So do not protect them. Only due to the reforms of Chubais, 20 million people died.

    That is strange. Under Stalin, the country's population grew by tens of millions. Something does not fit. smile
  16. +2
    8 September 2019 23: 33
    You should not wait for good from the West to live your own mind. There is no sense from Artemyev (Yabloko party). With the United States, it’s enough to try to flirt, answer with the same coin.