From the article of 'Petrel'
No.597 / September 15, 1996

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Intensifying powers struggle of Russia

Keeping an eye on Post Yeltsin



By having admitted the Yeltsin to undergo the by-pass operation by the heart disease of the chronic disease, The powers struggle of Russia that comes round in the post Yeltsin begun before and behind the presidential election is intensifying further.

In Russia, it does not lack the ambitious person who aims at Yeltsin's successor. The Rebeji national security conference clerk, prime minister Cherunomuirujin, and the president Chubais prefecture secretary piercingly are the representative cases and Mayor Moscow's Rusukof is also ambitious.

Especially, Their powers struggles continue a keen, bewildering contention, because three of the previous state is located in the Kremlin, that is, all the more because they are at the center of powers. The problem is how to evaluate this powers struggle.

After the presidential election, the Yeltsin made up "Dividing into parts rule" system, because powers is stabilized by making they compete mutually applying three of the previous state to an important post. The Yeltsin is balanced by the arrangement of Chubais who is the person in charge of the privatization plan between Rebeji who bares the desire which takes the place of Yeltsin and prime minister Cherunomuirujin who has strong opposition consideration to Rebeji as the president prefecture secretary. Standing on that by using the balance of these power of three persons was Yeltsin's strategy.

Yeltsin's piercingly aim succeeds. Rebeji succeeded in making my right-hand assume office as the national defense aspect, but he was prevented by the wall of Chubais and Cherunomuirujin and was "Containment".

However, inadvertently recent it seems that the Rebeji popularity rose and came out from the dumpling race of three persons by one step, because Rebeji is directly boarding to capital Gurozunui of Chechen and attained by the time the guidance part of an independent sect was connected with the agreement of peace. Rebeji promptly formed "Truth and order" alliance that assumes two political parties, that is, Russian community conference and Russian Democratic Party, and "Honor and mother country" of serviceman organization, in Moscow on September 5 and started the organization making oneself.

On the other hand, Rebeji was going to send the yell to Cherunomuirujin, by insisting that the prime minister should serve as the president agency when the Yeltsin cannot accomplish the obligation as the president by the operation. It might be an aim of restraining the expansion of the power of Chubais who is the stuff members in the stuff members presidential not to mention this.

Cherunomuirujin chuckles to oneself and Chubais is repulsed -- thus, it seems to continue the powers struggle.

However, thinking the political strife of Russia to be only mere ambitious person's powers duel might be too a simplification. The confrontation of interests of the bourgeoisie that is being newly formed in Russia and the power duel are reflected there.

It is always pointed out that the influence of "Financial the capital" increases in a new system of Yeltsin = Cherunomuirujin. Because Bodahnin who is a bank person of only 35 years old assumed office as the first vice premier that takes charge of an economic policy, that is clear.

Botahnin is known as a bank person of the talent brought up to the maximum commercial bank in Russia in three years after the Onekushim bank is established. The reason why he engaged in such important positions of him is that "13 persons group" whose he is the member is backed up. This group is composed by the top of a big bank and the enterprise, and largely contributed to the Yeltsin reelection by having recited the stability of politics in the presidential election. A large sum of election capital was turned on from the finance field to the Yeltsin camp around this group. It is thought that the part flowed from a middle election to Rebeji. The Yeltsin appointed Rebeji to the security conference clerk at once and dismissed the stuff members of Sosukobets the first vice premier and the President Korujakof guard directors of a bureau to take Rebeji who obtains the vote of 15% because of the first time vote. The reason is that there is pressure of these financial lobbies.

"Sosukobets in charge of industry was a representative in the heavy industries lobby that protects an old manager who opposes the bank capital by which enterprise rule is strengthened. Because, at the end of 94 years the event that Korujakof who received its intention blockaded the Most bank headquarters in military power happened too, the discord of a financial lobby and the heavy industries lobby continued. At this time, A financial lobby that had entered the regime expelled the heavy industries lobby." (Dated August 27 'The Nikkei newspaper')

Contention in bourgeois power appointing and dismissing behind the confrontation of Rebeji and Cherunomuirujin. Rebejii tried to recite the importance of an economic security and deprive Cherunomuirujin of the leadership of an economic policy. He recited national control of the energy enterprise and re-nationalization. It is not arduous in the imagination that this utterly stimulated Cherunomuirujin. Because, Cherunomuirujin is "Gasupurom" graduate which is the maximum conglomerate in Russia and is a representative case of energy and the resource industry.

Then, Cherunomuirujin tries to strengthen cooperation with Chubais, however the reality never moves according to the speculation of Cherunomuirujin, because the influence of the financial capital is becoming strong to Chubais.

The Nikkei newspaper of former graduate recording "It seems that the political party is only a profit group in immature Russia by which a true leading part of a domestic confrontation competes for the supremacy of economy and the politician is a scene of the chess" exposes a part of the truth.

If you simplify the reality so that the profit of which industry may be represented of whom, moreover, it is likely to change to the error. However, it is certain that the powers struggle of Russia is only interests confrontations in the bourgeoisie and the reflections of the power duel. And, to be common to all men of power is to defend the profit of the Russia bourgeoisie as the whole.

The struggle in the powers center of present Russia was completely far apart from worker's profit and contention between bourgeois various factions.

(Ken-ichi Suzuki)