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Заложно-Кредитне Аукције И Настанак Руских Олигарха
[Lien-Loan Auctions and Origins of Russian Oligarchy]

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  • Bukvić, Rajko

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The process of privatization that marked the so-called transition of East European economies in the 1990s and the first decade of 21st century have left a lot of theoretical and empirical materials which will remain research topics for quite a while. This process is particularly interesting and significant in Russia, the biggest and richest country of the former Socialist Bloc, where massive voucher privatization was followed by various machinations organized by the ruling clique gathered around the former president Yeltsin, his family and friends. This paper analyzes one of the mechanisms that enabled process – lien-loan auctions, held in 1995 and in which twelve giants of Russian (and world economy) were privatized virtually at no cost, thus forming a class oligarchs. According to the confession of one of the creators and protagonists of the entire process, it was a means to pay for political support to carry out a “normal” revolution. However, there is a question which this protagonists did not answer – whose support is so important and expensive: the support of domestic tycoons (like the banker Potanin and those like him, who initiated this mechanism that made them enormously rich) or someone else’s support? Процеси приватизације који су обележили тзв. транзицију источноевропских привреда током деведесетих година прошлог и почетних година овог века оставили су много теоријског и емпиријског матери-јала који ће сигурно још дуго бити предмет проучавања. Нарочито је ин-тересантан и значајан овај процес у Русији, највећој и најбогатијој земљи бившег тзв. социјалистичког блока, где је масовна ваучерска приватизација била праћена разним махинацијама коју је организовала владајућа клика окупљена око бившег председника Јељцина, његове породице и пријатеља. У раду се разматра један од механизама којима је овај процес реализован – механизам заложно-кредитних аукција, које су спроведене пред крај 1995. и којима је 12 гиганата руске (и светске) привреде практично бесплатно прешло у приватне руке, оформивши дефинитивно слој олигарха. Према признању једног од креатора и протагониста целог овог процеса, на тај начин је плаћана политичка подршка снагама које су извеле ову, како он каже, „нормалну” револуцију. Поставља се, међутим, питање, а на које тај протагонист није дао одговор – чија је то подршка толико важна и толико скупа: да ли домаћих тајкуна (попут банкара Потањина и сличних, који су овај механизам и иницирали и на њему се енормно обогатили) или неког другог?

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  • Bukvić, Rajko, 2009. "Заложно-Кредитне Аукције И Настанак Руских Олигарха [Lien-Loan Auctions and Origins of Russian Oligarchy]," MPRA Paper 70569, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2009.
  • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:70569
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    Keywords

    Russia; lien-loan auctions; privatization; oligarchs; political support; common property of the people заложно-кредитне аукције; приватизација; Русија; олигарси; политичка подршка; народна имовина;
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    JEL classification:

    • F60 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization - - - General
    • P20 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - General
    • P31 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Socialist Enterprises and Their Transitions

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