Regional governments all over Russia are looking to repossess the manufacturing in their neighbourhood, under the banner of saving jobs and staving off rapacious speculators. In the east Siberian province of Krasnoyarsk, the governor’s office fights Unexim Bank for control of a big metals smelter. The government of Tatarstan recently swapped tax debt for a controlling stake in Russia’s largest truck maker, KamAZ.
But by far the most ambitious and influential state industrialist is Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
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