Illarionov Leaves the State-Corporate Nexus

…“I regarded it important to remain here as far as there was a possibility to do something at this post, including a possibility to speak. Until recently, nobody set me any limits to express by viewpoints. The situation has changed.”

…“a change in the economic policy and the economic model as well as a change in the political regime and emergence of a corporate model of the state”.

…“on entering this office six years ago, I devoted my work to creating conditions to increase economic freedoms in Russia”. According to the adviser, “the situation has changed sweepingly over these past six years, and it has become clear over the past year that the very economic model in the country has changed, let alone the economic policy”. “It is being shaped up as a corporate model with the participation of state corporations which, being state-owned in name and status, are guided, above all, by their own interests.”

…“I did not take a job at such a state, did not conclude a contract with it and didn’t swear an oath of allegiance to it.”

…“one thing is to work in a partially free country, as Russia was six years ago, and quite another thing – when the country has stopped to be politically free”.

Andrei Illarionov, fmr economic advisor to president Putin.

“Andrei Illarionov resigns as president’s economic adviser over economic policy,” Itar –Tass, 12/27/05.