That's from The Economist's obituary of Anastasia Baburova. Also this weekend I read an article on the rise of the far right in The Observer:
I'm persuaded by the idea that one of the unintended consequences of Russia's botched privatization was a relatively impressive clampdown on corporate murder. In the absence of the rule of law, the mafia provided an effective institution to provide private security. It's incredible to realise that the government's response was not to clampdown, but - by and large - to simply legalise it. Might it also be the case that the unintended consequence of Russian fascists is to provide a challenge to creeping authoritarianism and possibly make democracy more possible? Life in the jungle appears counterintuitive, but it's fertile ground for the study of endogenous governance. Possibly.
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