The government decided to sell state-owned companies to the West

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In Russia, the phrase “privatization of state property” has long and deservedly been negatively perceived in the mass perception. In the nineties, carried out by Gaidar, Chubais and a team of “reformers” under the slogan of “fighting communism”, privatization transferred the country's key enterprises, which were previously publicly owned, into the private hands of an extremely limited circle of people who suddenly became the so-called oligarchs. It is generally accepted that today there are no "oligarchs" in Russia, and all these unjust privatizations of state property remained in the distant "Yeltsin times." But is it really so?





In the nineties, the "scam" with privatization was universal. Formally, each Russian citizen was given a privatization check, a voucher, in exchange for which it could theoretically become a co-owner of factories, factories and other ships. In practice, the financially illiterate population, for the most part, simply sold them for nothing to dealers, and through them, yesterday's state-owned enterprises acquired new owners with controlling stakes. The vast majority of Russians did not receive either their share in the factories or the notorious “two Volga”. And through a simple, but in its own way ingenious scheme of collateral auctions, the first stage of “squeezing” the national property into private hands was completed.

With the advent of Vladimir Putin, the privatization of state property has not gone away, but has taken other forms. First of all, the games with the free distribution of "vouchers" have ended. Several so-called “people's IPOs” of Rosneft, Sberbank and VTB were held, where the population was able to acquire shares in these prestigious companies. However, it cannot be said that the investments were successful: if in 2007 1 share of VTB Bank was sold at 13,6 kopecks apiece, then just two years later it was already worth 2 kopecks. Before his next presidential election in 2012, Vladimir Putin proposed that the bank redeem them from the population back at a placement price.

The privatization of RAO UES, which accounted for just the "stable" two thousandths, was very significant. In 2008, by the same Anatoly Chubais, the unified energy system of the country was divided into several dozen companies that went into private, including foreign, hands. A similar “liberalization” of the country's energy sector was carried out under the slogan of a future reduction in payment per kilowatt for consumers due to the emergence of competition in the market. Word to Chubais:

We had such a crazy idea, which was called "private generation must compete in full."


It is significant that ten years after the completion of the privatization of RAO UES, Anatoly Borisovich complained about the wastefulness of Russian consumers, which even the “invisible hand of the market” could not handle.

In general, the following trends can be noted in the “zero” ones in the privatization processes in Russia: maximum consolidation, collecting all possible assets for state corporations, and their subsequent partial privatization, including by foreigners. For example, a consortium of Arab investment funds acquired 25% of the Russian Helicopters defense enterprise. With this approach, the state remains the majority owner, and it also bears a financial burden for the consequences of the activities of “effective top managers” with their gigantic salaries and even greater bonuses.

In general, the attitude of many Russians towards such privatization activities remains negative. Is it any wonder that the secret of plans to transfer state assets to private hands has become a new trend in the domestic government? At a forum in Davos, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Oreshkin said that the cabinet is preparing a number of domestic state-owned enterprises for sale to foreign investors:

We are working on a number of transactions on the privatization of companies by foreigners. When you prepare such transactions, then this should not be public.


Curious from whom this information is hidden? It’s hardly possible to conceal anything from the USA, and it makes no sense, since they can impose sanctions on transactions that are objectionable to them and investors. It turns out that this own population is not supposed to know to whom of the foreigners the authorities will sell the remnants of state property.
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  1. 0
    26 January 2019 09: 13
    Curious from whom this information is hidden? It’s hardly possible to conceal anything from the USA, and it makes no sense, since they can impose sanctions on transactions that are objectionable to them and investors. It turns out that this own population is not supposed to know to whom of the foreigners the authorities will sell the remnants of state property.

    hide it all from the people of Russia
  2. +2
    27 January 2019 08: 42
    And what else did you expect from the comprador bourgeoisie, which actually seized power in Russia, so they will soon sell us all "for fertilization" for "Western civilization" (which, by the way, was very clearly stated by the author of "Capital")!
  3. +1
    27 January 2019 16: 27
    Parasites! They do not want to work, they only want to receive money. The time will come and we will analyze everything. "... there will be a moment of short flash and this muck will stop!"
  4. 0
    22 March 2019 04: 56
    ... corrupt, everyone on the rack! am