Andrei Illarionov and "Nashism"
Andrei Illarionov has been a busy bee since resigning from the Putin government two months ago. He seems to be running around giving speeches, interviews, and now writing op-ed columns propagating his thesis that Russia is a corporatist state. I have to say, I’m starting to find some of his ideas about the Russian state and economy rather interesting. A recent op-ed particularly stands out. It was first published in Kommersant and then picked up by the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times. His mantra is simple: Russia has changed since Putin came to power six years ago. I doubt many would disagree. But what is interesting is how it changed. The economic and political stability that followed the disastrous Yeltsin years was a result of economic and political centralization. Russia, Illarionov argues, is now less economically and politically ..read more
