Public policy as elite preference

of several measures:
Surveillance provisions
Penal provisions
Religion provisions

consisting of members of the economic elite and policy-planning networks, holds the most power and that this power is independent of a state's democratic elections process. 
The aristocratic version:

Power lies in position of authority in key economic and political institutions.

For in reality, the elite would have the most to lose in a failed state.

on the Russian economy on the whole;
A Change.org petition to completely cancel Yarovaya's Act collected over 600,000 signatures. Russian Public Initiative petition has been signed more than 100,000 times.
A number of protests were organized in cities, including Moscow, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Ufa, Kazan and Volgograd.