The Basis for Economic Security: An Alternative Reform Policy

Analysis of Russia's economy specifically from the standpoint of national security only confirms the radical conclusions concerning the current direction of economic policy that I have previously argued in detail in the journal's pages.>sup>1>/sup> By virtue of the unprecedented systemic crisis in the national economy, it makes sense to view the existing situation not so much in terms of taking stock of potential threats as in terms of the obvious failures that determine the unsatisfactory state of our economic security. In this context, the readers' attention is called to its key aspects and, above all, to the main direction of eliminating the economic threat of the loss of national security that is connected with changing the reform model.