On March 19, 2011, a debate was held at the Higher School of Economics with Yaroslav Kuzminov on the Federal Contract System.
More than three years have passed:
Everything happened exactly as RosPil had warned: competition declined, corruption increased, and the role of public oversight diminished.
They promised to take our anti-corruption amendments to the Federal Contract System into account, and of course they ignored the most important part. The supervisory public councils on procurement that Elvira Nabiullina had promised were never created.
The notorious “presumption of innocence of the contracting authority” does not work. That was no less obvious then than it is today.
And they still tell us that we have no program and nothing constructive to offer. We have everything: a program, constructive proposals, amendments, draft laws, recommendations. The problem is that no one listens. And the more it becomes clear that we were right, the less they listen.