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Toby Gati’s interview with Voice of...
to change anything. When Medvedev"s keynote speech on the development of Russia was broadcast, in the audience were more than 500 people who live rather well according to the old rules -- why should they change anything? Modernization is not a conservative process: it is a very radical undertaking. You can’t do “just a little” modernization. Let’s say, for example, England wanted to change its practice of driving on the left to driving on the right. Many would caution that this presupposes very radical change. So, the authorities can promise that this change will affect only trucks. But that’s ridiculous. Can you think of a modernization in which one part of the system changes and the other parts do not? Small and medium businesses need to develop, but this is impossible with such levels of corruption. The result will be either no small and medium businesses, or not so much corruption.Society must choose -- and to make such a very serious choice
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