| Vladimir Putin opposes nationalisation and the revision
of privatisation results, and holds the view that this will be even more
harmful than privatisation. At a meeting with graduates and
students of Columbia University, Vladimir Putin noted that a large-scale
sale of state property occurred in Russia in the early 1990s.
"This was not always done within common sense and for economic
considerations, it was done for political considerations, and the idea
was to create, by selling state property, a class of society which would
not permit the reversal of Russia and would struggle for what it has obtained",
the head of the Russian state said. He also noted that most Russian citizens
considered the past privatization to be unfair. But, as the president
stated, "if privatisation results are revised, this will be even
more harmful than privatisation." "I am against nationalisation
and the revision of privatisation results," he noted.
Commenting on the idea of Grigory
Yavlinsky, leader of the Yabloko party, to declare an amnesty on privatisation,
Putin noted that it was necessary to translate this idea into reality
correctly from legal and political points of view, something which is
hard to do. // RIA-Novosti
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Privatisation
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