Russia, Energy and the Geopolitics of Europe
President Putin has very clearly laid out a project for the economic revival of Russia, which Yeltsin’s two presidential terms brought to the brink of disaster, in economic and social terms, and to the danger of disintegration of the national territory. The oligarchs not only controlled business ins...
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Centro de Estudios Avanzados. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/revesint/article/view/38549 |
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| Sumario: | President Putin has very clearly laid out a project for the economic revival of Russia, which Yeltsin’s two presidential terms brought to the brink of disaster, in economic and social terms, and to the danger of disintegration of the national territory. The oligarchs not only controlled business inside Russia in the Yeltsin era, they also fled massive amounts of Russian state capital, essentially taking it to Switzerland.Thus, President Putin assumed power at the end of 1999, the Russian elite supported him, above all, the nationalist faction, the military sector and the security services. His success was of such magnitude that when his presidential position was confirmed in the March 2000 elections, he won widely from the first round. At that time, many Russian oligarchs considered Vladimir Putin a weak president, easily manipulated and compromised with former President Yeltsin, who would be doomed to act in the interests of power groups.However, his first period was characterized by a break with the previous free market model without state regulation. Instead, Putin began to run the economy on the Asian model, with the state’s leading role in building the market economy.Thus, since the year 2000, Russia has been repositioning itself, becoming an energy and arms power and this new situation is opposed to the American projects of world domination, for which a strategy of pitting Ukraine against Russia was initiated until the development of a conflict between the two nations |
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