Wednesday’s session of the Presidium of the economic Council under the President of three teams of experts presented options for bringing the country out of crisis. A typical story about trying to move the cart of a Swan, pike and cancer. Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev proposed to increase public and private investment through savings on the tariffs of natural monopolies, the staff salaries and pensions. Representatives of the “Stolypin club” Boris Titov and Sergei Glazyev called for stimulation of production to include the printing press. And ex-Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said that the economy should be developed on the own funds of the business in a radical reduction of direct government participation. Characteristically, rival groups of liberals United in the need to organize further impoverishment of the Russian people: the speaker comes from the fall of incomes of Russians as a source of corporate profits, but Kudrin points to the need for minimum economic growth — in fact, the unacceptability of development that could rejuvenate Russia.
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