Ministry of Finance
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Ministry of Finance is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 06, 2022 and August 11, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “In 2015, the Ministry of Finance reported that the government underspent the budget”; “IFC-style people to run Ministry of Finance”. It most often appears alongside Soviet Union, Stalin, Trump.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: April 06, 2022
- Last seen: August 11, 2023
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
By several measures, the anticorruption campaign has been very effective. The sale of luxury items, such as watches, jewelry, leather goods, and liquor, has fallen dramatically, as have expenses for catering and high-end hotels. In 2015, the Ministry of Finance reported that the government underspent the budget it had allotted officials for overseas travel, entertainment, and cars.
As someone, who left Russia less than a year ago, I agree. Gessen is a really talented journalist and writer, but boy is she biased. First of all, Putin is smart. For example, he is no economist, yet he's been able to choose qualified (and quite liberal) IFC-style people to run Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank. When several years ago local industrial lobby tried to criticize inflation targeting (and thus high interest rate) policy of the RCB, he came back with "look at what happens in Turkey". His prime-minister is actually one of the most capable technocrat of his generation. And the apparent incompetence of the military and secret services looks more of a feature (coup-proof) than a bug.