Doing Business in Russia. Котова К.П - 26 стр.

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IV.      Read through the following text.
                     Business People from an Executive Committee
              or on how some Deputies are beginning to make their own money
                             and the problems this is creating
          Several employees of large enterprises – economists, technical experts –
have quit their jobs and gone to work for the Executive Committee of Moscow’s
Lyublino District Soviet. Local people have started calling them managers. This
sounds unusual for apparatchiks but is consistent with their new occupations.
Although the territorial intersectoral production-technical administration pro-
duces nothing on its own, it organizes things so as to ensure earnings for Depu-
ties.
          The EC managers studied the district’s enterprises carefully. Despite con-
stant complaints of scarcities, the enterprises had more than ten million roubles ’
worth of raw materials, supplies and equipment between them – dead capital.
The managers became brokers, brining together those who had surpluses with
those who had shortages. The workers of the mew administration are supposed
to remit a specific percentage of their profit to the account of Deputies.
          Thanks to mismanagement
          The new administration anticipates converting business executives’
hoarding, mismanagement and lack of enterprise into a source of financial sup-
port for district authorities.
          “When the Lenin Komsomol Motor Works switched to the production of
a new model of the Moskvich car”, says Motor Works department head Khamit
Zinurov at this administration, “they intended to scrap the equipment that had
been used to make the old model. It cost 32,000 roubles.