Aggressors may establish a complete monopoly over financial flows, taxes, and trade operations in the seized territories. Placing the region's economy under the colonizer's manual control allows it to redirect all collected funds into its own treasury, deprive the Indigenous people of economic independence, and rigidly tie their livelihood to the metropole. This phenomenon manifested most vividly in the USSR, where all aspects of the economy were subordinated to the state, and all legal economic activity, up until the last few years of Soviet rule, was planned and regulated by the USSR's Gosplan from Moscow.
Preservation of the center's control over the region's finances: the articles "fully preserved the previously established control of the tsarist regime over local financing"[1].
Embedding the autonomy's finances into the imperial system: the revenues from the indukta (duty on imported goods) "were to be transferred to the tsar's treasury"[1], while the host treasury was managed by two general treasurers – a Ukrainian and an appointed Russian.
The Russian Empire funneled the Nokhchi's supply of grain and salt through trading points under its control, making vitally important goods dependent on its administration. The sale of grain and salt to the Chechens was permitted only through barter yards under quarantine, established «for the peaceful Chechens in Naur… for the mountain Chechens in Lashchurin», with a duty paid to the treasury and disputes adjudicated through an imperial pristav (overseer)[2][3].
By the regulation of August 2, 1829, Commander-in-Chief Paskevich locked the Chechens' access to trade onto a commissar appointed by the empire: travel to imperial territory was permitted only with tickets (written passes) — "To him is also granted the right to issue tickets to the said Chechens for travel into our domains on trade business"[4]. In practice, the pass system was supplemented by arbitrariness: Chechen society wrote to Paskevich on November 21, 1829 that Engelhardt and Khasai-Musa "order their subordinates to place under arrest all those Chechens who come to them with tickets from Shahbaz," while those obedient to Khasai-Musa act so "that we may thereby be deprived of the means of sustenance"[4].
The trade with Chechnya that remained permitted, the empire drove under its own control - into state barter yards (exchange points supervised by officials). Historians Ya. Z. Akhmadov and E. Kh. Khasmagomadov write: "Free trade of Russians with the highlanders on the border line, including with the Chechens, was forbidden. All trade operations had to pass under the control of state officials, who saw to it that goods of military character did not reach the highlanders - 'beyond the border'. In addition, a number of restrictions were introduced on the sale of iron, salt, gold and other goods"[5]. The network of controlled points expanded: in the second half of the 1840s the number of barter yards was brought to 11; in 1846 barter points were opened in the Cossack stanitsas of Chervlennaya and Mozdokskaya; over 1846 the highlanders brought goods worth 231 thousand rubles to all the barter yards[5].
The empire conducted trade with the Chechens through controlled channels. The number of state barter yards (points of exchange of goods under the supervision of officials) in the second half of the 1840s "was increased to 11"[5]. In 1850 the empire expanded trade - under the same control: historian N. I. Pokrovsky writes - "In 1850 the commander-in-chief, wishing to bring the unsubdued highlanders closer to the Russians, permitted the opening of a fair near the Groznaya fortress... After an exchange of amanats on 15 May an armistice of three days was concluded... On our side the sale of weapons and iron was not permitted" (an amanat is a hostage whom the empire took from a community as a guarantee of its submission)[6]; historians Ya. Z. Akhmadov and E. Kh. Khasmagomadov write of "the first Grozny trade fair," to which the highlanders brought "various goods on 500 arbas" (an arba is a two-wheeled cart)[5]. The fair opened with an exchange of hostages; the sale of weapons and iron the empire did not permit.
In 1895 the Cossacks leased out 420 thousand desiatinas (a desiatina is a little over a hectare) of "yurt" (stanitsa allotment) lands, the official rent for which came to over 140 thousand rubles a year; on top of that, "reserve" lands went out on lease - up to 65 thousand desiatinas annually[5]. By 1913 the stanitsas were leasing out 424 thousand desiatinas of host lands and collecting 806.5 thousand rubles in rent, and the main tenants were Chechens - up to 77 percent of peasant households[5]. Leasing became so widespread that the administration of the Terek oblast grew alarmed: historians Ya. Z. Akhmadov and E. Kh. Khasmagomadov write that the authorities "seriously feared that, by renting the same plots for many years, the highlanders might in the end lay claim to them", and, besides, sought to attach to the oblast as many "out-of-town" peasants as possible, "and therefore at the end of the 19th century an ordinance came out forbidding Cossacks to lease their land directly to the highlanders"[5]. The use of land taken from the Chechens was made conditional on the authorities' permission, and that permission was revoked as soon as use threatened to turn into right.
Forcible seizure of land, livestock, and agricultural implements from peasants as part of forced collectivization under slogans of socialist modernization[7].