“Every 6th businessman in Russia has been prosecuted in the last decade. Three million have been sentenced in that time. Half are planning to leave the country. And the numbers are increasing sharply because the clock is ticking. If Obama had gotten a complete blank check for a decade and his backers had been allowed to operate with no legal constraints on their authority, then the United States in 2020 might look like the way Russia does today. But the good news is that government mafias have a limited shelf life.”
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2012/08/good-news-from-russia.html
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