Russia's oil and gas assets are directly related to its national security. Accordingly, abandoning them, the state will definitively lose levers of influence on the economy, experts warn..

The Russian authorities do not have many opportunities to curb the growth of social tensions in the country. One of them is a responsible tariff policy, which allows for a controlling stake in oil and gas companies. If the Kremlin succumbs to Kudrin's influence and puts oil, gas and other key assets on sale, the country will be destroyed as soon as possible. So in an interview with the "Free Press" the president of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Tenants of Russia Andrei Bunich commented on the idea of ??the head of the Center for Strategic Research (CSR), ex-finance ministers of Russia Alexei Kudrin on the sale of state property.

On the eve of Kudrin publicly initiated the launch of minority shareholdings under the hammer. First of all, in his opinion, it is necessary to do this in the oil sector, in the gas, financial and other sectors.. "Our country, unlike developed countries, has a large amount of state ownership. The state can privatize, and invest its resources in infrastructure, technology, education. But you need to be more open country, invite, including foreigners, not only to buy Russian companies, "Kudrin said.. As an argument for his idea, he cited the example of last year's sale of shares of Rosneft, thanks to which the budget received more than 1 trillion rubles. "We can live this way for many years, receiving such investments. About ten years we can approximately live, receiving such volumes of incomes ", - the ex-minister.

What will happen in 10 years, when revenues will end, and there will be nothing more to sell, Kudrin does not tell. However, a number of experts believe that even these years the country will not have. "If the government starts selling oil and gas assets now, these assets will eventually be in the hands of Western business. And Western business, it seems, will try to destroy all life in the Russian economy and in the shortest possible time, "Bunich.

He recalled that the state at one time had paid dearly for regaining control of oil and gas assets, which at the dawn of perestroika had been distributed for a pittance.

Selling them anew, as Kudrin suggests, "the state will lose its leverage over the economy": "We must understand that the new owners of these companies will immediately take advantage of their monopoly on the market. And it will be impossible to stop them, "Bunich.

However, the government has followers of Kudrin's ideas. So, in the winter the media wrote that the FAS is developing a document on the need to reduce the market share of state and municipal companies by selling existing core assets in order to increase competition.