From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11479 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, May 29 2023 Volume 14 : Number 11479 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Your coffee is canceled ["Coffee Routine" Subject: Your coffee is canceled Your coffee is canceled http://javaburnwife.life/SoEa6mGJRfbUUejh06afycLTnW9IreFBwAJ8dvIOP0C9R7iRrQ http://javaburnwife.life/E5T4AhYQKA1-ub62TOempkhOXDjP_ff51Qbw7XIQtHeN7re3GA Post-Soviet Russia has been described as an oligarchy, a kleptocracy, and corporatist. On October 9, 2007, an article signed by Viktor Cherkesov, head of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia, was published in Kommersant, where he used the term "corporativist state" in a positive way to describe the evolution of Russia. He claimed that the administration officials detained on criminal charges earlier that month are the exception rather than the rule and that the only development scenario for Russia that is both realistic enough and relatively favorable is to continue evolution into a corporativist state ruled by security service officials. In December 2005, Andrei Illarionov, former economic adviser to Vladimir Putin, claimed that Russia had become a corporativist state: The process of this state evolving into a new corporativist model reached its completion in 2005. The strengthening of the corporativist state model and setting up favorable conditions for quasi-state monopolies by the state itself hurt the economy. ... Cabinet members or key Presidential Staff executives chairing corporation boards or serving on those boards are the order of the day in Russia. In what Western countrybexcept in the corporativist state that lasted for 20 years in Italybis such a phenomenon possible? Which, actually, proves that the term 'corporativist' properly applies to Russia today. According to some researchers, all political powers and most important economic assets in the country are controlled by former state security officials (siloviks). The takeover of Russian state and economic assets has been allegedly accomplished by a clique of Putin's close associates and friends who gradually became a leading group of Russian oligarchs and who "seized control over the financial, media and administrative resources of the Russian state" and restricted democratic freedoms and human rights Illarionov described the present situation in Russia as a new socio-political order, "distinct from any seen in our country before". In this model, members of the Corporation of Intelligence Service Collaborators (KSSS) took over the entire body of state power, follow an omertC -like behavior code and "are given instruments conferring power over others b membership 'perks', such as the right to carry and use weapons". According to Illarionov, the "Corporation has seized key government agencies b the Tax Servic ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11479 ***********************************************