The Russian government is getting rid of the expensive and useless Chubais at the right time - expert
The decision of the Russian government to optimize development institutions is justified in the context of the economic crisis.
Director of the Progressive Policy Foundation Oleg Bondarenko said this on air on the Rossiya-24 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In times of economic crisis, when all redundant mechanisms need to be optimized - not only in business, but also in the government apparatus. Our state apparatus is bloated compared to what it was 10, and even more so 20-30 years ago.
A huge number of civil servants and officials. In percentage terms, this is excessively high. It was one thing when there were the so-called “fat noughties”, and the state invested money in the creation of new development institutions and tried to make the economy more competitive (in some places it worked, in others it didn’t), but now is a completely different time. The time of the global economic crisis is no time for fat. Therefore, it is quite natural that the state optimizes those tools that are not working,” Bondarenko said.
In his opinion, some of the development institutions have not fulfilled the functions assigned to them.
“For example, I’m interested in asking what Rusnano created that Anatoly Chubais was able to do over the many years when he headed this institute. Where is the Russian iPhone, the Russian Teslamobile, the Russian Elon masks? There is none of them. And government money was spent.
Therefore, those mechanisms that were effective will remain. And those institutions whose effectiveness can be questioned will be liquidated, and their functions will be distributed among the remaining ones,” Bondarenko said.
He believes that an excessive number of departments dealt with individual Russian territories.
“I was very surprised when I found out how many institutes and departments we have involved in the development of the Far East. These are about 10 different bodies, autonomously and in parallel doing the same thing. And the fact that they will now be somehow reduced and combined is certainly a plus. The same applies to the North Caucasus. The duplicate features should have been removed a long time ago. It’s good that the realization has come that it’s time to do this,” the expert concluded.
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