| Then the country's emergent civil society collapsed beneath post-communist repression and the kleptocracy of regional robber barons. |
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| But, as we have seen with Russia, if the ethical basis of free markets degenerates sufficiently, all that we have left is a form of kleptocracy. |
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| If a European referendum is held, it will be time to settle accounts with the EU kleptocracy. |
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| It is ruled by a corrupt kleptocracy of aristocrats who use their control of state monopolies and even the tax system to enrich themselves at the public's expense. |
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| Proceeds from its North Sea drilling rigs will insure corruption and kleptocracy on a Nigerian scale. |
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| How about staging large-scale NATO military maneuvers at the border and freezing the assets of the kleptocracy? |
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| Some of its more hot-headed adversaries claim, it signifies the rise of a global kleptocracy. |
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| Vladimir Putin's Russia, by contrast, is a dozy resource-based kleptocracy whose customers are shifting to shale gas. |
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| This kleptocracy is safeguarded by repression and by the cooptation of an aspiring trade bourgeoisie. |
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| The tycoon turned to Facebook to declare war on Mr Rahmon's kleptocracy, launching biting broadsides but never mounting a serious challenge. |
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| In the United States, Cabinet departments and agencies collaborate to fight bribery and kleptocracy. |
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| Most anti-corruption groups believe that corruption and kleptocracy must be addressed first and foremost at the source. |
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| The antidote to kleptocracy is the age-old story of democratic struggle. |
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| But no political parties are immune to the infection of kleptocracy in Ukraine. |
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| The Kiev government has been a badly run kleptocracy, corrupt and incompetent, as the pathetic present state of its military suggests. |
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| Though it still has a torpid air, Vientiane is growing fast in the hands of a Communist kleptocracy whose members queue up on Saturdays in their big cars to cross the Mekong for a dose of shopping across the border. |
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| For decades the companies have operated in a kleptocracy in which officials and employees, from top to bottom, have survived by bribery and theft. |
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| This form of democracy is on the march in Cameroon where ballots are cast and counted, yet it is secrecy, fraud, repression and kleptocracy that strengthen the regime's grip on power. |
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| If there is no personal ethics, then the state becomes organized kleptocracy, like Zaire under Mobutu, or anarchy, like Hobbes' war of everyone against all. |
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| Two crucial aspects of the fight against kleptocracy are the denial of safe haven to corrupt officials and recovery and proper dispersion of the proceeds of corrupt acts. |
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| In a few short years Djibouti has gone from a beacon of stability in a turbulent region to a kleptocracy absent of public legitimacy, and a security threat. |
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| It is a great picture of the tawdriness of Yalta, the defeated hopes of an elderly population labouring under a kleptocracy. |
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| Under the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen was described by critics as a kleptocracy. |
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| The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy. |
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| The two were at odds for two decades as Suu Kyi led a non-violent struggle against the army rule under which Myanmar was a pariah and kleptocracy isolated by the West. |
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| The regime will use its economic control to brutally suppress internal opposition, and concerns over human-rights abuses and regime kleptocracy will grow. |
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| Kleptocracy and corruption are also common features of the two countries. |
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