Como Putin y sus amigos se robaron Rusia

La tapa de The Advocate con Putin como Personaje del Año y la tapa del libro de Karen Dawisha, La Cleptocracia de Putin. 

Either way, no one now doubts that, despite the talk of “reform,” he made no attempt to encourage truly entrepreneurial capitalism inside Russia or to create a legal system that would allow small businesses to grow. Courts became increasingly politicized and markets ever more distorted. Oligarchs and businessmen at all levels who did not play by his rules were destroyed. The most famous victim of Russia’s arbitrary justice was Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was arrested in 2003, after which his oil company, Yukos, was liquidated. Yukos’s assets were then transferred to another company, Rosneft, which happened to be owned by another one of Putin’s friends. Khodorkovsky’s arrest was intended as a lesson to others: here is what will happen, even to the richest men, if they step out of line.

Copiado de  How He and His Cronies Stole Russia de Anne Applebaum donde
reseña el libro Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia, de Karen Dawisha.