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📚 noun • entry_id 13312

blat

/blæt/
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blat
The Soviet system of connections and social relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society).
Alena Ledeneva's book is the first to analyse blat in all its historical, socio-economic and cultural aspects, and to explore its implications for post-Soviet society. In a sociali…
To open a new business in Russia you need blat.
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