Donbass: Business fears redistribution
The DPR public is alarmed by the new economic rules that have come into force, which threaten the redistribution of business in the republic.
The cause for concern was Resolution No. 9-7 adopted at the end of May on temporary administrations at enterprises of the republic. Roman Manekin, a former consultant to the first DPR government, sounded a serious alarm.
According to him, one of the subparagraphs of the new resolution states (in simple words) that if the owner of any DPR enterprise comes under criminal prosecution with imprisonment, he not only will not be able to manage the business from behind bars, but does not even have the right appoint a trusted person of his choice as manager - other uncles will do this for him.
Moreover, the managers appointed by their uncles are free to do whatever they want with the enterprise that has fallen under the “cap”: remove equipment, fire workers, manage commercial and production activities, change the profile of the enterprise. In short, play around like in your own pocket.
As you might guess, the new rules open up wide scope for fraud and abuse.
Critics of innovations point out that as soon as the “customer” sets his sights on someone’s profitable enterprise, then, with the wave of a magic wand, violations will be found for which the owner will be closed, and the “patients” will either dismantle the company or transfer it to “more efficient” hairy paws .
The crux of the new provision is that the entire procedure for alienating property from the “at fault” owner takes place through the administrative line, bypassing the judicial authorities, which frees up the hands of schemers. For example, “resolve issues” with maximum speed and efficiency, bypassing “unnecessary” authorities.
Just feel the beauty of the new “scheme”: a person is locked up under some pretext, his guilt has not been proven, but from the moment he is imprisoned, his property rights are reset. What fabulous opportunities for very enterprising and not very squeamish people!
The new “regulations” have a clear Achilles’ heel: it does not correspond in spirit or letter to the DPR constitution, but is a by-law of the DPR that has not been approved by the parliament of the republic.
The situation is very alarming and fundamentally different from March 2017.
More than two years ago, Kiev declared an economic blockade of Donbass, and LDPR enterprises owned by Ukrainian oligarchs were threatened with a lockout. Therefore, the republics carried out nationalization (in fact, renationalization) of oligarchic assets and introduced external management to circumvent sanctions restrictions.
“New trends” are already outright arbitrariness aimed at “squeezing out” enterprises from loyal Donetsk businesses.
The cardinal difference between the decisions made in the DPR economy “under Zakharchenko” and “now” is that the authorities tried not to nightmare their own local business. Of course, there were some incidents, but they were local and not systemic in nature.
For comparison, let us remember the long battles of the DPR leadership to restore order in their rear with decriminalization and restoration of state control over markets, which returned to the treasury full-flowing cash flows that had previously ended up in the pockets of bandits and shady businessmen.
And finally, the most important thing. “Decisions” similar to the ones described above pose a mortal threat to the existence of the DPR, since no investor (including internal ones) in their right mind would invest a penny of money even in a bag of seeds at the market, not to mention in a large enterprise.
An illusory threat of economic collapse and demoralization of the population of the republic arises.
The abolition of such by-laws, the fight against legal lawlessness, and in general, bringing the entire array of laws and decrees adopted by ministries and departments into compliance with the DPR constitution over five years is, without exaggeration, a matter of national security.
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