Sentences with phrase «post-soviet kleptocracies»

So the aim was not only to provide basic infrastructure needs freely or at subsidized prices, but to prevent private owners from erecting tollbooths on roads and charging monopoly prices for power, phone systems (as in Telmex in Mexico or similar phone monopolies in the post-Soviet kleptocracies).

Neighborhood watch: an honest man fights the power in Russia's post-Soviet kleptocracy in Yuri Bykov's emphatic tale