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Consumer
In memory:
optimism
Cool comfort
Putin honours
Russians are set to become
terror victims
Europe’s biggest consumers
in three to four years, says
investment bank Troika On October 30, Russia marked Memorial Complex, the Va-
Dialog. the Day of Memory of Victims gankovskoye Cemetery and
of Political Repressions and the Cemetery of the Moscow
While Russians have reluc- the 70th anniversary of the (Donskoi) Crematorium. A
tantly had to face signifi- Great Purge. On August 5, stone from the Solovetsky
cant increases in the cost of 1937, an order to conduct “a Monastery, the site of a noto-
foodstuffs, unlike previous campaign to purge the former rious prison camp in north-
crises there has been no kulaks, convicts and other ern Russia, has been installed
panic or consumer hysteria. anti-Soviet elements” signed in Lubyanka Square in cen-
Instead, every family has by Nikolai Yezhov, People’s tral Moscow.
sought its own way out of Commissar (Minister) for In August 2007, a wooden
the situation. Internal Affairs, was enacted, cross called a Poklonny Krest
For instance, Deacon Vic- paving the way for mass (Cross of Worship, pictured
tor Zavodov from Omsk, executions. below), consecrated near the
Siberia (pictured right) has walls of the Solovetsky Mon-
decided to ration his fami- According to official records, astery’s Transfiguration of
ly’s consumption of meat 4,060,306 people were killed the Saviour Cathedral, was
and cheese until prices de- between 1921 and 1953, placed in Butovo.
crease. Zavodov brings in a 799,455 of whom were exe- On October 18, 1991, the
modest salary – some $350 cuted. The purge reached its RSFSR Supreme Soviet
a month – but that is good climax in 1937-1938, when (Parliament) passed a law
money in the Russian prov- 1.3 million people were con- “On the Exoneration of Po-
inces, where the cost of liv- victed on trumped-up charg- litical Repression Victims”
ing is much less than in the es in line with the official and established October 30
capital. quotas. Half of this number as the Day of Memory of Vic-
Other families with larger was executed. tims of Political Repressions.
incomes have different solu- On October 30, to honour the Under the law, the civil rights
tions that avoid strict bud- memory of victims of politi- of political repression vic-
geting, and we feature some cal repressions President tims will be reinstated and
of them on page 4. Vladimir Putin visited the other consequences of arbi-
Meanwhile, analysts Kings- Butovo Grave Memorial trary rule eliminated. More-
mill Bond and Andrei Complex, a former firing over, victims of the purges
Kuznetsov from the invest- range of the People’s Com- will receive damage pay-
ment bank Troika Dialog missariat (Ministry) for In- ments and also be compen-
recently published a report ternal Affairs just outside sated for emotional distress.
rating Russia’s consumer Moscow, where mass execu- Since 1991, the authorities
market as the largest in the tions were held in the 1930s have re-examined about
BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and the 1940s. 630,000 cases of individuals
and China) quartet of Between August 1937 and convicted during Soviet
emerging markets. Accord- October 1938, 20,765 people times and recognised more
ing to their figures, Russian were executed at Butovo. than 424,000 of them, includ-
GDP comes in the highest if There are five known mass ing 10,000 children deported
adjusted for purchasing graves of purge victims in together with parents, as
power. Moscow and the surrounding purge victims.
-
And the International Mon- area. Monuments have been
etary Fund estimates that created at the Butovo Grave TURN TO PAGES 6, 7
by 2008, this important in-
dicator will reach $15,000,
or some 45pc of the level of
EU member states. Each
year, the number of Rus-
sians with at least $350 of
monthly disposable income
(after housing, transporta-
tion, health and education
costs) grows by five mil-
lion.
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Economy Foreign partners welcome, but only if tough restrictions on Russians are eased
Expect boom, says presidential aide
Speaking at the annual up huge gold and foreign- should expect to experience of investment would be of dures were subject to change Russian investors,” Shu-
meeting of the US-Russian currency reserves, and has an investment boom in the a qualitatively different depending on the broader valov told the meeting.
Business Council in Moscow, established a large “stabili- near future. He reminded level. political situation, and that He concluded by predicting
presidential aide Igor sation fund” that should the audience that national Shuvalov said legislation on mutual investment oppor- that Russia would play an
Shuvalov painted an avert any repeat of the 1998 parliamentary and presi- investment in “strategic” tunities into such sectors increasingly greater role in
optimistic picture of future loan default. dential elections would be sectors of the economy was were an essential prerequi- the global economy, and
economic growth. Shuvalov also expressed held in the next six months, being drafted as he spoke, site. that a high-tech and re-
confidence that nationwide and that this long-awaited and that it would define the “It will be impossible for source-rich economy would
Recent years have seen a inflation would eventually clarification of domestic full range of investment op- Russia to open up its strate- emerge by 2025.
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substantial improvement of be reduced to match EU and politics will usher in a new portunities available to for- gic sectors to foreign inves-
living standards in Russia, US levels. period of elevated invest- eign companies and individ- tors if other countries do not
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The country has also built vestment, he said Russia He added that this new wave He stressed that the proce- tough restrictions facing ON PAGES 2 AND 3 DMITRY ASTAKHOV_RIA NOVOSTI
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