With friends like these - corruption as an organizing principle in Putin's Russia

There nothing better than spending your summer vacation reading some good books - which at least for us, means reading our way through several new titles examining the future trajectory of Vladimir Putin's Russia. This week, Anders Åslund, a senior fellow in the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council, joins Bob on this episode of Departures to discuss his latest book, "Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy."

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