This webpage was first designed to provide supplemental documentation to the book "Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia" by Karen Dawisha (Simon & Schuster, 2014). We have elected to maintain its ...
In the hallway, Phoebe was finishing a video call with friends, while Isaac played music in his room, headphones on, oblivious. Then came the sound — the unmistakable shatter of glass downstairs. Cindy froze. “Phoebe? Isaac?” she whispered sharply. From their rooms came confused replies. “What was that?” Cindy didn’t wait ...
Karen Dawisha, professor of political science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, spent the last five years investigating how Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, came to control so much of that ...
Kleptocracy (from Greek κλέπτης kléptēs, "thief", or κλέπτω kléptō, "I steal", and -κρατία -kratía from κράτος krátos, "power, rule"), also referred to as thievocracy, [1][2] is a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to expropriate the wealth of the people and land they govern ...
Kleptocracy, in politics, a form of government by individuals who primarily seek personal gain at the expense of those they govern. Kleptocracy is a major problem both in individual countries and internationally, as kleptocratic countries tend to adopt broadly destructive policies and to subvert
The meaning of KLEPTOCRACY is government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed; also : a particular government of this kind.
A kleptocracy is a form of government in which leaders exploit national resources and steal; it is rule by thieves. In a kleptocracy, those in power use their official positions to enrich themselves at the expense of the broader population, often through embezzlement, bribery, kickbacks, or the outright seizure of assets.