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Russian minister pushes plan to renationalize banks, companies
MOSCOW. Feb 15: As the Russian government tries to convince the West it is not backing down from reforms, the interior minister on Wednesday pushed a plan to-renationalize banks and big businesses, reports AP.
Interior Minister Anatoly Kulikov's radical plan to raise desperately needed cash set off a wave of criticism and sent Russian officials scrambling to explain.
"Kulikov goes even further than the Communists." the influential daily Izvestia said Wednesday.
The temptation to take money away from rich companies is great, but it would be hard to do this without a civil war."
The proposal was a poten-tial embarrassment to Russia as it began a new round of talks Wednesday with the International Monetary Fund, which is looking for assurances the government remains committed to economic reforms before approving a new nine billion dollars loan.
Russia's reform programme appears increasingly under threat. President Boris Yeltsin has showed signs of leaning toward increased state control over the economy and has promised huge new social spending to placate Russians ahead of the June elections.
With Communist Gennady Zyugnaov leading In the polls,'
Yeltsin has been trying to steal the Communists' thunder and reach out to Russians suffering under the market reforms.
But even the Communists, who favour some renationalization, have made an effort to reassure Russian companies that they will not be expropriated.
Kulikov, the nation's top law enforcement official who has a Soviet-era doctorate in military economics, first broached the idea of what he called "partial nationalization" in a government meeting Friday,
Izvestia suggested that it may have been a trial balloon to test public reaction to the idea of nationalization.
Kulikov defended his plan in an interview published Wednesday in the newspaper.
"If there's no money, you have to look for ways to raise it." he said. You can't Just sit around with your arms crossed."
Government officials rushed Wednesday to distance themselves from Kulikov's plan.
Yeltsin's Press Secretary. Sergei Medvedev, said the president was unlikely to accept the plan. But he didn't rule it out.
"Kulikov's letter is Just a proposal under consideration." Medvedev said. "It's not something already endorsed."
Alexander Livshits, the President's top economics
advisor, said some of Kulikov's ideas make sense, but rejected most of the plan as "frivolous," the Interfax news agency reported.
Russia's natural gas monopoly. Gazprom — which plans to sell nine per cent of its stock abroad — warned that the value of its shares might plunge over Kulikov's ideas.
But the Duma, the lower house of parliament dominated by Communists and nationalists, agreed to discuss Kulikovs plan.
In language redolent of Soviet times. Communist deputy Igor Bratishchev blasted Russia a private banks for "speculation" and praised Kulikov.
Banks were involved in a highly controversial privatization plan, dubbed the loans-for-shares plan. Russia last fall began to turning over to banks stock in some of the country's biggest companies ds collateral for loans to fund the state s budget
The broad understanding was that the government wouldn't repay the loans, and the banks would keep the shares.
From the outset, critics, particularly the Communist Party, denounced the plan as a veil for insider deals between the government and select, banks. Now, a row for control of one of Russia's biggest mines has exploded.