Center for Security Studies

In Search for a New Social Base or Why the Russian Authorities Are Changing Their Relations with Business

In Search for a New Social Base or Why the Russian Authorities Are Changing Their Relations with Business

Author(s): Andrei Yakovlev
Editor(s): Aglaya Snetkov Stephen Aris
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 121
Pages: 10-15
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2012

The future of Russia depends on whether the elites can agree on new rules of the game. Russia’s highest officials recognize that in order to preserve the political regime, it is necessary to change the model of relations with business. However, the lack of correct stimuli for bureaucrats at the middle level continues to be a serious obstacle for development.

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