Ja, nu duger det kanske inte ens med Lenin, nu är det Stalin som i stor stil ska stå som föredöme för Kreml. Varför inte satsa på att fylla Krim med "inspirerande" gigantiska Stalinstatyer, där folkmördargeorgiern fjärrskådande visar den enda vägen framåt för gangsteroligarkproletärerna?
Vad Ryssland i övrigt tänker göra med Krim står väl skrivet i stjärnorna. De enda turister som nu vill besöka halvön torde bli ryska chauvinister som vill svinga lite kosackpiska mot homo sovieticus otaliga fiender. Krim får konkurrera med Sotji om resenärerna. Krim kommer att kosta en hel del ekonomiskt, kräva infrastrukturinvesteringar och långsiktiga subsidier. Krims största skattebetalare, en brittiskägd vodkaindustri med omkring 700 anställda på Krim, förlorar 90% av sin marknad när Krim nu inte längre ska vara en del av Ukraina. Vodkaindustrin får alltså konkurrera på den ryska marknaden, där det inte torde råda någon brist på vodkaproducenter. Så det är bäst att de brutal-sentimentala råskinnen och operettfigurerna nu inte snålar på sina storryska etniskt rensande glädjetårar, det kommer surt efter.
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Crimea receives nearly all its electricity and drinking water from Ukraine, and Russia will need to build new infrastructure — including a long-planned bridge — to link Crimea directly to the Russian mainland. Until that is complete, it will have to pay Ukraine for the utilities.
An analysis done by Russia’s Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper suggested that absorbing Crimea might cost Russia $20 billion during the next three years.
“Maybe it will be 30” billion dollars, Slutsky said. “Of course, it will all be quite expensive.” But standing up for Russians in Crimea will be worth it, he said.
Crimea is one of the least wealthy regions of Ukraine, said Boris Kopeykin, an analyst with Standard & Poor’s here. And its shadow economy probably constitutes a larger share of the overall economy than elsewhere in Ukraine.
Tourism, one of the region’s economic mainstays, will probably be severely affected by the crisis for months to come. Crimean leaders say they hope to foster a tourism boom in the years ahead, under Russian rule. There’s one problem with that: The competition is Russia’s own Black Sea resort of Sochi, which Moscow just spent $50 billion sprucing up for the Winter Olympics.
There would be other costs as well — financial and political.
Russia’s bid to join the 34-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development was suspended by the group Wednesday. That means less support in modernizing and diversifying its economy. It’s a signal to investors, too, said Yevsei Gurvich, head of the Economic Expert Group, a think tank here.
Membership in the OECD would carry with it recognition that Russia has agreed to do business according to standardized rules, he said. “Suspension implies more uncertainty about our willingness” to do so.
The same thinking applies to sanctions, if the West should impose them, he said: The sanctions would do less damage than the overall sense of uncertainty in Russia that they would create among investors.
Alexei Kudrin, a former Russian economics minister, told a gathering Thursday in St. Petersburg that he expects capital flight from Russia to reach $50 billion a quarter if sanctions are imposed. That would be triple the 2013 rate. He said Russian companies are already finding it more difficult to obtain credit from foreign lenders.
Men framtida imperieryska generationer kommer att vara djupt tacksamma mot Dugin och Putin, lika tacksamma som de är mot lillefar Stalin. Kremltalesmannen Slutsky påstår rentav i sin stora visdom att Ukraina inte alls var viktigt i planerna för EAU. Paradiset på jorden ska nu byggas med Kazakstan och Vitryssland som byggklossar.
En hel värld kommer att avundas det nya Sovjetrysslands oligarksmarta kapitalflykt, hotfulla militärparader, övermänskliga produktionskvoter och överjordiska brödköer. Notera även Slutskys, och därmed hans mästare Putins, knäppgöksparanoia om Krim, som han påstår skulle ha attackerats och styckats av västmakterna om inte Ryssland ockuperat halvön.
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Andrei Movchan, head of the Third Rome investment management company in Moscow, criticized Putin on the Slon.ru Web site for pursuing a policy that will earn Russia international enmity while not bringing in any benefits.
Iran and China, he noted, have been studiously quiet about the Ukrainian crisis. Even the two other main members of the Eurasian Economic Union, Belarus and Kazakhstan, have been putting distance between their positions and Russia’s on Ukraine.
Slutsky, speaking for the Kremlin, argued that Ukraine isn’t that important to the Eurasian association and that its eventual orientation is a more pressing issue for the West than it is for Moscow.
The more important concern for Russia, he said, was to step in to defend Crimea, which he suggested was facing the same fate as Iraq, Libya or Yugoslavia — attack and dismemberment at the hands of the West.
The payoff for Russia, he said, will be the gratitude of future generations.