The periodical press has started voicing more and more critical remarks regarding the governmental anticrisis program for 2009. The criticism concerns the overlimit additional financing of the car industry and the military industrial complex, high customs duties on separate products, the administrative regulation of the banking and financial sectors, and, finally, de facto refusal to change the key points in the structural politics. According to the author of the article the main reason for such deviations from the implementation of the stated long-term strategy for creating an effective market environment in the socially oriented economy is not only the lack of the competitive capacity but rather the obvious neglect of the notion at all levels (production, business, market of capitals, management decisions etc.). The steps declared in the anticrisis program and taken by the authorities are analyzed in the article from the point of view of their influence on the creation and destruction of the competitive environment in the Russian economy.