WASHINGTON, DC – Vladimir Putin’s Russia is looking more and more like the sclerotic and stagnant Soviet Union of the Leonid Brezhnev era. But in one area, Putin’s regime remains an innovator: corruption. Indeed, in this, the 18th year of Putin’s rule, a new form of crony capitalism has been taking hold.
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Anders Aslund: Russia’s neo-feudal capitalism
A employee waits for customers beneath T-shirts featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin at a gift shop in an underground crossing in Moscow on Feb. 14, 2017.
