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Their authors agree about certain things, and they are things worth saying notably that Russian capitalism, and Russian democracy, had some very ugly features which western governments, above all the Clinton administration, pretended not to notice.
ECONOMIST: Observing Russia
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But the consequences of state capitalism will eventually show through, and we will be surprised to learn that Chinese and Russian state capitalism were houses of cards.
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Russian crony capitalism combines political power with blackmail, jail, mayhem, and murder.
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But opening its bond market through Euroclear shows that even Putin knows the future of Russian democratic capitalism is pushing down on him.
FORBES: Russia's Bond Market Grows Up
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Instead of lip-service to communism and Russian dominance, pay it to capitalism and democracy, and you and your pals can still run Georgia much as you want.
ECONOMIST: Edward Shevardnadze, Georgia��s foxy president
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After seven decades of communism and two of gangster capitalism, an estimated 250, 000 of them and other Russian speakers from the former Soviet Union now live in London.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Chinese and Russian businessmen understand, better than any outsider, two facts of life under state capitalism.
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It was translated into 26 languages (Russian being an exception, the Soviet government assuming, incorrectly, that it was a paean to capitalism).
ECONOMIST: Sloan Wilson | The
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Russian entrepreneurs understand that another six or even twelve years of Putin means more of the same state capitalism, which they see as unbridled corruption, cronyism, and extreme uncertainty with regard to property rights.
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