'..Vladimir Putin prefers valuable assets to be the state's property .. From 2005 to 2015, the share of the state in the economy doubled, from 35% to 70%..'<blockquote>'Unlike his predecessor Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin prefers valuable assets to be the state's property. He did not destroy the oligarchy but changed the oligarchs, strengthening ties between property and political power. From 2005 to 2015, the share of the state in the economy doubled, from 35% to 70%. The first years of Putin's rule were a prosperous period when the economy grew by an average of 7%. Oil prices' rise in the middle of the 2000s inspired a considerable growth in services and construction sectors, but at the same time the country's economy started to overheat to collapse in 2008. A further recovery required substantial government's support, but oil prices rose again, so Russia could afford it. The 2014 brought a new oil price drop, which caused a deeper recession alongside with the Western sanctions. Thus, the development is suspended again.'
- Anna Litvina,
Russia needs to change its economic model to compete? October 26, 2016</blockquote>
'..the renewed ISI strategy provides an appropriate framework for a mid- or even long-term demodernisation strategy for Russia under the current regime..'<blockquote>'As this analysis demonstrates, the contraction of the Russian economy’s dependence on imports looks to be another fundamental condition for the rebalancing of “Putinomics” and the adaptation to mid-level oil prices. Ineffective in the long term, as the experience of many countries has demonstrated, the policy of import substitution can support industrial output and even provide economic growth in the short term, as well as serve the purpose of ensuring the survival of Putin’s regime. So-called Latin American structuralism – the import substitution industrialisation (ISI) strategy implemented in some Latin American countries between 1950 and 1980, and widely discussed in academic literature – is predicated on protectionism, vertical integration, and wide government interventionism. It was originally developed as the ideology of self-sufficiency and would fit naturally with anti-globalism and anti-Westernism in the political sphere.
Together with the redistributive policies described above and focused on the redistribution of shrinking resources for the purpose of political survival, the renewed ISI strategy provides an appropriate framework for a mid- or even long-term demodernisation strategy for Russia under the current regime..'
- Kirill Rogov,
Can “Putinomics” survive? June 5, 2015</blockquote>
'..secretly assessing the "protest potential" of students and staff at Russian universities..'<blockquote>'MOSCOW -- A group that has received financing from the Kremlin is under fire over a report that it has been secretly assessing the "protest potential" of students and staff at Russian universities and making its findings available to the authorities.
Critics have labeled a senior staff member at the Moscow-based Institute for Strategic Research and Forecasts an "informant" for the security services following the October 24 report in the newspaper Kommersant, which sparked anger among Russia’s beleaguered liberals.
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Danyuk said he found that the "destructive propaganda of antistate ideas" was not being expressed openly in public settings, but suggested it was being voiced "without embarrassment" by professors, students, or both in more private settings.
The Kommersant report prompted a wave of angry comment. One article that circulated on social networks was headlined An Employee Of The Friendship Of Peoples University Traveling Around Regional Universities Has Turned Out To Be An Informant For The Special Services.'
- Tom Balmforth,
Kremlin-Financed Group Targets 'Destructive, Antistate Ideas' At Russian Universities, October 26, 2016</blockquote>
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'..a clear understanding between Washington and Moscow about the rules of the road - that we are not trying to bring down each other's systems..''..Russia's relations with the West..'(Peace) - 9th European Symposium on Non-Lethal Weapons - May 8-10, 2017'..subjective knowledge treats knowledge as being tacit, private, subjective, and decentralized..'</blockquote>