[Aaus-list] Columbia University: Professor Karen Dawisha 10/15/2014 Presentation on Putin's Kleptocracy

[Max Pyziur]

Columbia University: Professor Karen Dawisha 10/15/2014 Presentation on 
Putin's Kleptocracy
http://www.brama.com/~deckard/Columbia-KarenDawisha-PutinsKleptocracy-20141016.mp3

Length of talk ~ 45 minutes; additional 40 minutes of Q&A

Some notes on the talk:
Discussion on Ukraine around 50 minute mark

Bohdan Vitvitsky asks a more directed question re: Ukraine beginning just 
before the 53 minute mark

paraphrase "Russian public can't do anything, because ruling elites cannot 
be rotated via elections."

paraphrase: "Frozen conflicts are to the advantage of the Putin regime; 
(my interpretation - a form of settler colonialism); there is no oversight 
taking place there: no embassies there, no human rights NGOs. => 
facilitates illicit transit, money-laundering, etc."

Supporting material for Putin's Kleptocracy available from the Miami 
University Havinghurst Center on Russian and Post-Soviet Studies Website
http://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/centers/havighurst/cultural-academic-resources/putins-russia/index.html


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