"Dopo il comunismo, l'Europa vuole esportare in Russia il kyotismo"

[Stonewall]

Eccezionale, come sempre, Andrej Illarionov, consigliere economico di Putin!



Moscow Times, Friday, Feb. 20, 2004. Page 3

Illarionov Likens Kyoto to Gosplan

By Greg Walters
Special to The Moscow Times Presidential economic adviser Andrei
Illarionov
lashed out Thursday at the Kyoto Protocol, likening the plan to limit
greenhouse gas emissions to Soviet-era state planning and accusing the
European Union of trying to impose "Kyotism" on Russia.

"I have called my speech 'The Return of Gosplan,'" Illarionov
said, in
a reference to the Soviet agency that set production quotas.

"But the proposed mechanism would decrease quotas year by year.
... So
it may be more correct to call it the return of the gulag," he said,
speaking at the opening of a two-day international forum dedicated to
the
Kyoto Protocol.

The Kyoto Protocol calls on signatory countries to reduce
greenhouse
gas emissions by 5.2 percent of 1990 levels by 2012. Without
ratification by
Russia, the treaty cannot come into force.

Illarionov is a staunch opponent of the protocol, arguing that
cutting
greenhouse gas emissions would hurt the country's economic growth.

Illarionov on Thursday accused the EU of putting "unprecedented
pressure" on Russia to ratify the treaty and embrace the ideology of
what he
called "Kyotism."

"Attempts to pressure Russia into taking a decision can only be
seen
as an attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of the Russian
Federation," he said.

"During the 20th century, Russia seriously suffered from another
ideology that came from Europe. ... Not only Russia, but the whole world
suffered," he said, referring to Marxism.

Illarionov's speech elicited laughter and looks of befuddlement
from
the audience. Illarionov appeared to be speaking tongue-in-cheek at
times,
but participants said the Kremlin's firm stance came through loud and
clear.

"Mr. Illarionov is mocking those who have an incorrect
understanding
of the [ratification] process," said Arkady Volsky, head of the Russian
Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. "Can we really say that
Europe is
asking us to reinstate Gosplan or to reinstate the gulag?"

EU officials at the forum insisted that Russia would benefit by
ratifying the Kyoto Protocol. "Ratification will attract investment and
help
Russian companies that will have to increase their energy efficiency,
cooperate with international partners," said Richard Wright, the head of
the
European Commission's delegation in Russia.

[ARI6]

Speriamo in una strenua resistenza (e magari nell'influenza della Russia sull'Europa, ma questa mi sembra una chimera...).