Аннотация: Far East versus European Russia? Economic version.
Far East versus European Russia? Economic version.
Behind the events in Belarus, an important information passed relatively unnoticed.
The lengthy maneuvering around the Far East problems was intensified by protests in Khabarovsk.
The protests in Khabarovsk were one of the reasons for Prime Minister Mishustin's trip to the Far East.
This trip was followed by an important economic announcement.
"MOSCOW, August 31 [2020]. / TASS /. The government plans to keep stimulating electricity tariffs in the Far Eastern regions for the next eight years. This was announced by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin, opening an operational meeting with the Deputy Prime Ministers on Monday. " [unofficial translation] (https://tass.ru/ekonomika/9328613)
Can a stimulating electricity tariffs be high? Probably not. It is logical to assume that incentive tariffs should be relatively low ...
It's a good idea ... To support the Far East with the help of a relatively low electricity tariffs ...
What is a tariff?
In the most primitive, simplified form, all energy companies add up their costs and their products (kilowatt-hours). How much does one kilowatt hour cost? The total costs are divided by the total kilowatt-hours produced. It turns out the tariff. Of course, profit is also needed ... But we will not go into details ...
So what are these total costs?
"... The Ministry of Energy wants to build a gigantic Mokskaya HPP on the freely flowing Vitim River to "power the second stage of development of the Eastern Range of Railways of Russian Railways". And it doesn't matter that the railway itself does not need this energy, that other consumers are not visible for it - but the opportunity looms to bury big state money in the remote taiga. " [unofficial translation] (https://www.sibreal.org/a/30688312.html)
In other words, there is the Far East, there is the general expenses of energy companies, and there is a tariff.
If tariffs in the Far East are relatively low, then in European Russia they can be relatively high?
Suddenly, the curtain opens and we see how the Bashkir Soda Company is functioning.
"... Billions of dollars are transferred to accounts in foreign banks or deposited in offshore zones. With these funds, Russian businessmen buy luxurious mansions, luxury villas, cars and yachts ... ... in just one year (from 2004 to 2005) the price of soda ash rose by 25%. Naturally, thanks to the operations carried out and the monopolization of the market, the volume of dividends that were distributed among the shareholders of the merged BSK significantly increased, if compared with what they received earlier, namely in Soda JSC. The amount of dividends has almost tripled. Now, in a year (in 2016 and 2017) they had more than 11 billion rubles here ... ... The soda kings of Bashkiria: Islamov, Kharisov and Chernikov made capital for themselves, and it should be noted, considerable, with the help of the natural resources of Russia, and then said goodbye to their homeland without special regret ... It is clear that it will not be so easy to get winemakers from distant France now ..." [unofficial translation] (https://finance.rambler.ru/other/44570744-kak-bashkirskie-sodovye-magnaty-vyvodyat-dengi-iz- rossii /)
Thus, under a simplified scenario, a low energy tariffs in the Far East should lead to an increase in energy tariffs in European Russia?
"The prime minister stressed that it is important to reduce the region's dependence on vegetable imports. According to him, all conditions for a normal life of people should be provided in the Far East. "For this, a mechanism of state support for projects for the construction of greenhouse complexes will be developed," he said, adding that the execution of orders in this area will be supervised by Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko. " [unofficial translation] (https://tass.ru/ekonomika/9328613)
It would be nice if any business - including the construction and operation of greenhouse complexes - could function normally in the Far East without government support.
Firstly, such a task is not set. Such a task is too large. It would require enormous political and economic (and cultural) changes ...
Secondly, the former residents of Russia who have moved abroad need financial resources. And with major political and economic changes, they will lose these resources ...
The Russian bureaucratic brain generates ideas. Previously, he supported Yanukovych. Now he supports the Far East and Alexander Lukashenko ...
In the context of replacing the intelligentsia with effective managers and all sorts of prankers, such ideas are a completely natural intellectual product produced by supporters of artificial intelligence on the digital platforms of modern scientific and political clusters.
August 31, 2020 22:14
Translation from Russian into English: August 31, 2020 23:02.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Дальний Восток против Европейской России? Экономическая версия".