Social Space and Property Relations in Russia

Abstract

The article examines the problem of Russia’s internal challenges of development due to the state of the social space system of the status of social actors and their interaction. It attracts attention to the tensions of social space associated with the processes of desocialization of property in the post-Soviet period. Still, after two decades, entrepreneurs operate in Russia in the conditions of insufficient legal protection and depend on the authorities at all levels. At the same time large owners have lobbying influence on the government in the interests of their business. Russia has developed the design of “power-property”, which claims to dominance at the scale of districts, cities, regions and the country as a whole and impedes the development of private entrepreneurship and market competition. Many of the problems of modernization of economy are the result of desocialization of ownership, especially large state ownership in the oil and gas sector, which is still not recognized in society as legitimate. Russia has not received development strategy public-private partnership, which could coordinate at the legislative level the interests of the state and of private entrepreneurs in leading sectors of the economy.