In his report How Non-State Actors Export Kleptocratic Norms to the West, Ilia Zaslavskiy of Hudson Institute’s Kleptocracy Initiative explores how the democratic picture envisioned at the fall of the Iron Curtain hasn’t turned out as many expected. “When the floodgates opened after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the post-Soviet swamp was not swept away but instead served to muddy Western waters,” Zaslavskiy writes. “This destructive import of corrupt practices and norms comes not only from post-Soviet kleptocratic regimes like Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia, but also from China and other countries around the world whose ruling elites now possess far-reaching financial and political interests in the West.” Read the report here.
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