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  • A society in which the wicked prosper

    Owen Matthews | Sep 9, 2007 11:27 AM
    Why has Russia been so grossly corrupt, and so irredeemably, for so long? The problem has been around for centuries, as any reader of early-nineteenth-century satirist Nikolai Gogol will know. He described a world of petty, sycophantic, thieving bureaucrats and swinish, dishonest peasantry. Grotesque caricatures, for sure, but uncomfortably close to all-too recognizable Russian types one encounters every day in modern Moscow. More
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