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In all other countries, the railways are used for movement, but we use them for stealing.
Putin's Kleptocracy (2014)
I would not be able to tell which monies belonged to the KGB and which to the mafia.
Putin's Kleptocracy (2014)
Putin will not go gentle into the night.
Putin's Kleptocracy (2014)
Putin's ...securing a monopoly position for select firms was a feature ...while deputy mayor.
Putin's Kleptocracy (2014)
Putin operates a "protection racket"... that severely punishes disloyalty while allowing access to economic predation on a world-historic scale for the inner core of his elite.
Putin's Kleptocracy (2014)
Putin, as deputy mayor of Saint Petersburg worked with the mafia to make their activities legal.
Is Putin’s Russia a Kleptocracy? (2015)
Putin has built a system based on massive predation not seen in Russia since the Tzars.
I yearn for the Politburo in trying to figure out what is going on in Russia.
Is Putin’s Russia a Kleptocracy? (2015)
Property rights are secured by loyalty and not by law.
Is Putin’s Russia a Kleptocracy? (2015)
Putin... allegedly favored a takeover of the St. Petersburg port by the Tambov organized crime group.
Putin's Kleptocracy (2014)
The Putin system nationalizes the risk and privatizes the reward to loyalists.
The Kremlin and its supporters use the courts to scare off researchers who want to expose the corruption at the core of this regime.
Unmasking Team Putin (2015)
Pavlovskiy ...heard Putin say, "We ...know that as soon as we move aside, you will destroy us. ...you'll put us to the wall and execute us. And we don’t want to go to the wall."
Putin's Kleptocracy (2014)
They couldn't write this now, but they were writing it in the 1990s.
Shamalov... was hired by Putin in 1993. The conflict of interest was massive.
Putin's Kleptocracy (2014)
In the book I detail the many cases that I investigated in Saint Petersburg of Putin's involvement with illicit activities, illicit groups.
Is Putin’s Russia a Kleptocracy? (2015)
Andrey Piontkovskiy... "...Putin’s political philosophy and favorite concepts—managed democracy, administrative vertical, dictatorship of law, a 'control' shot to the back of the head, etc.—are close to this group."
Putin's Kleptocracy (2014)
I had published six books already with Cambridge.
Unmasking Team Putin (2015)
The argument of the book is that this group failed in 1991, but they succeeded in 2000. It's the same group, ideologically, not everybody, but ideologically.
"Putin was part of a very extensive, but politically invisible layer of people, who after the end of the 1980s, were looking for a revanche in connection with the collapse of the Soviet Union."