● Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
By Karen Dawisha
Review via The Wall Street Journal
Systemic embezzlement, skimming, fraud and personal enrichment through power—these have long been assumed about Vladimir Putin ‘s inner circle, but they have not been comprehensively laid out until now. Karen Dawisha’s book made headlines in April, five months before it was published, when Cambridge University Press backed out of publication in Britain, fearing English libel laws. “Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?” delivers precisely the kind of meticulously researched evidence one would hope for in a work preceded by such controversy.
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