Paul Goble
Staunton, Jan. 3 – Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin says that Moscow believes it can solve the housing construction problems it currently faces if it adopts the system China uses, a system that was developed over the last several decades on the basis of models and practices in the Soviet Union.
Beijing has modified the Soviet system by computerization, of course, but Russian experts say that the basic features of China’s current approach – building components of buildings in factories and then assembling them on site – copy what Moscow did before 1991 (tass.ru/ekonomika/26014639 and province.ru/society/4479837-v-rossii-hotyat-stroit-jile-kak-v-kitae/).
What is striking about this development is that apparently senior Russian officials believe they will get more support in the Kremlin for what they want to do if they suggest their ideas copy Chinese ones rather than by suggesting that the Russian Federation should return to Soviet models that Beijing has copied.
That is a clear indication of just how far Putin’s turn to the east is affecting aspects of Russian life not usually connected with that shift and underscores how willing Russian officials now are to copy China rather than choose to try to recover what they clearly believe Russia itself has lost.
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