Victorious nationalists promise crackdown on big business (Moscow)

[Judi Lynn]

Victorious nationalists promise crackdown on big business


ASSOCIATED PRESS

MOSCOW, Dec. 9 — Leaders of a newborn nationalist party that made a surprisingly strong debut in parliamentary elections have promised to try to reverse post-Soviet privatizations and trim oil company profits, challenging the future of Russia's market reforms.

The Homeland bloc, which won 9 percent of the vote in Sunday's elections even though it was created less than four months ago, includes several hawkish military retirees who are virulently anti-American. One of its most senior figures, retired Gen. Valentin Varennikov, was a key player in the August 1991 hard-line coup that sought to restore rigid Communist controls.

Homeland's young leaders — the 41-year old Sergei Glazyev and the 39-year Dmitry Rogozin — also have repeatedly assailed the West and shocked Russian business circles with their promises to crack down on rich tycoons.

Speaking in televised postelection debates early Monday, Glazyev insisted that controversial privatization deals need to be revised. ''The deals which violated the law must be canceled,'' he said. ''A stolen asset can't be managed efficiently.''

Such statements play well with voters, who broadly resent the post-Soviet privatization in which a handful of Kremlin-connected tycoons won quick fortunes by snapping up oil fields and other prized state assets at giveaway prices. (snip/...)

http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap12-09-000227.asp?reg=EUROPE

[papau]

1. Russia "big business=corrupt Yeltsin friends/relatives that stole billions

should be interesting!

:-)

[DivinBreuvage]

2. "Several hawkish military retirees who are virulently anti-American."

Oh goody. How do you say "Bring it on!" and "Mission Accomplished!" in Russian?

Seriously, though, when are we going to have an American party crack down on corporations run amuck?

[RPG-7]

3. These guys are Milosevic on steroids with access to nukes

Their guiding light is a "Greater Russia" uniting all Russian speaking people (exactly the same goal as Germany's National Socialists) and they are a disaster waiting to happen.

[Name removed]

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[RPG-7]

6. This is going to get arcane isn't it?

My guess is that the last time "this happened" in your fevered imagination was the Bolshevics?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. A modest proposal to moderators - instead of tombstoning...

...flaming Nazis like this one, why not lock the account and leave the message on, along with the originating IP address (so ISPs/authorities could act upon it)? Stupidity should be exposed and ridiculed whenever possible.

[scisyhp]

10. Disaster?

As opposed to the great success the American inspired capitalist
restoration has been? Killing untold millions and impoverishing
tens of millions, while making a dozen oligarchs filthy rich?
Having lived through the last ten years of looting and dismantling
being done to their country, most Russians will happily try
that alleged "disaster" for a change. What the hell did you
expect? Them enjoying being robbed and keeping to elect the
robbers? I don't think so, even with all the Western influence
S&M is not that big in Russia yet.

[pink_poodle]

12. Agreed -nm

;

[Nlighten1]

4. Good luck to them...

they might be in a better position to push out the corporate cannibals than we are here in America.

[sablefish]

9. Here's a link.

http://www.meguiar.addr.com/Russian_Edomites.htm
This is why Putin is doing what he is. I don't blame him. Putin is declaring war on the world wide Rothschild controlled fiat money banking cartels that have a strangle hold on the rest of the world.

[J B]

7. You "media manipulation" fiends out there, look: Russia voted for 'em!

You can deny and deny that ordinary people in Russia want the oligarchs clamped down on and so can The Economist and The Daily Telegraph and lots of others, but you're dreaming, the Russian public voted for these guys in large part because they wanted to because they don't think that the freedom of oligarchs to plunder is worth fighting for.

[RPG-7]

8. in Chechnya?

This is not to defend the oligarchs but there was some rather obvious and blatant vote rigging on.