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Document 11 CLAS UNCLASSIFIED CLAS UNCLASSIFIED APSR PM2408103593C lIlA!' 930813 SLIM Moscow IZVESTIYA in Russian 13 Aug 93 First Edition p 4 Aura Aleksandr Kislov: "Saratov's Industrial Generals Fight for Reforms and Vant To Turn the Shadow Economy Into a Normal Economy" SUBS [Article by Aleksandr Kislov: "Saratov's Industrial Generals Fight for Reforms and Vant To Turn the Shadow Economy Into a Normal Economy" SUBJ TAKBALL-- Saratov Oblast's Reform Plans Explained Pull Text Superzone of Message 1
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[Text] Saratov -- At a recent meeting in Saratov with Premier Viktor Chernomyrdin, the directors of the oblast's major enterprises put on the table a package of proposals aimed at making market reforms more radical, at the center of which was a project elaborated by Aleksandr Yermishin, general director of the aviation plant. The premier approved the project and issued the relevant working instructions to the leaders of several state committees and ministries. The Director as the Mainstay of Transformations [subhead] Yermishin's office contains models of Yak-42 aircraft, the plant's main output, and a machine of an intrinsically ney design that is reminiscent of a fantastic "flying saucer." The series-produced machine will soon receive its international certificate and will join the "Boeing"; it will cost $21 million. The "saucer" has already been made up in meral, and preparation for series production is now underway. The aviation plant, transformed not so long ago into a joint-stock company of the closed type, is confidently increasing production in the most difficult conditions of the transitional period. However, our conversation with the director was not about this. "Reforms should be conducted only with the active participation of enterprise leaders," Aleksandr Viktorovich said. "They are the framework which is keeping the economy from final collapse. In Saratov, for example, defense enterprises have great weight. How could the state leave us without an arms program? To this day, you see, there isn't one. If only the government would summon up the courage and declare that there will be no orders." "Nevertheless, you and your colleagues have risen above the grievances?" "But surely grievances are not the point? Ve have simply realized that this potential will disappear unless it is utilized." However, I think that Saratov's industrial establishment was prompted to get involved in reforms by more than just a patriotic desire to participate in the reconstruction of Russia. Being pragmatists, they extrapolated the development of events in conditions of continuous war between the branches of paver and came to the conclusion that the road ahead leads into the abyss. Anyway, everyone realizes,that the way back is barred. To continue to build up grievances against the government, accusing it of neglecting the collectives' needs and asking for loans to pay wages, although easy enough to do, is not promising. And here Yermishin proposes a mechanism with whose aid it would possible not only to preserve the collectives but also to secure their future. Cadres Plus Investments -- the Survival Formula [subhead) I have before me a memorandum "On the Mechanism for Collaboration Between the u.s. and Russian Governments in Converting Russian Enterprises and
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