Paul Goble
Staunton, Nov. 10 – The Putin regime is seeking to make employers rather than its own bureaucracy responsible for boosting vaccination rates against the coronavirus not so much to deflect blame to others but because its own bureaucracy is incapable of doing so, Anatoly Nesmiyan says. Indeed, the government is now suffering from “administrative collapse.”
Nesmiyan, who blogs under the screen name El Murid, says that “the transfer of a fuction to structures which are completely unrelated is one of the extremely characteristic signs not even of structural shortcomings – an administrative crisis – but of a clear administrative catastrophe” (publizist.ru/blogs/113683/41293/-).
Under Putin, the Russian Federation “has an enormous number of bureaucrats at all levels of administration. This isn’t a result of the good life [employment in the pyramid] provides but because the authorities are attempting to compensate for the fall in the quality of the work of the administrative apparatus by increasing its size.”
But even this “excess” in numbers is insufficient “to solve the tasks” the Kremlin has assigned to the bureaucracy, Nesmiyan says; and Moscow no longer has the capacity to boost the number of officials as the country’s “saturation limit” as far as that is concerned was “reached long ago.”
And it is that situation which lies behind regime’s “decision to delegate vaccination authority to employers,” something that represents “an attempt to expand the bureaucratic apparatus by other means.” But this won’t solve the problem; it will only call more attention to it.
Moreover, El Murid argues, this “administrative collapse” feeds on itself and thus fails ever more frequently. When Moscow has to deal with revaccination or some other challenge, the regime will find that it will have to “look elsewhere” for such management resources. Judging from the situation now, it will be “impossible” for Moscow to “escape this catastrophe.”
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