Re:The Money Farmers: How Oligarchs and Populists Milk the E.U.
by roywiggins on Sunday November 03, 2019 @10:04PM
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Yup, I don't know about dangerous, but "original" was definitely innaccurate on my part!
It's a word that came to be attached to post-Soviet kleptocrats, so that's why it ends up being used in that context and not in Western contexts, since it's taken on the meaning of wealth extracted from the state by pure cronyism.
It's a word that came to be attached to post-Soviet kleptocrats, so that's why it ends up being used in that context and not in Western contexts, since it's taken on the meaning of wealth extracted from the state by pure cronyism.