A Book on Russia and Its Capitalism

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Contemporary Russia | Red sky in the Morning; A salutary tale of robbery and redress. Economist, Jan 31, 2015
www.economist.com/news/books-and ... ess-red-sky-morning
(book review on Bill Browder, Red Notice; A true story of high finance, murder and one man’s fight for justice. Simon & Schuster, 2015)

Note:
(a) "He bought underpriced shares in badly run Russian companies and chivvied the management into behaving better so the share price would go up."

chivvy (vt): "to tease or annoy with persistent petty attacks"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chivvy
(b) "He describes the exhilaration of buying scruffy little privatisation vouchers"

scruffy (adj; etymology): "shabby and untidy or dirty <dressed in scruffy jeans and a baggy T-shirt>"
www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/scruffy
(c) "Congress ignored the timorous Obama administration and pushed through sanctions in the 'Magnitsky Act' in 2012."

timorous (adj; share the same Latin root as "timid"): "of a timid disposition : FEARFUL"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/timorous
(d) "But it skates over some mistakes, including the author’s initial failure to see that Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian kleptocracy was far from an investors’ paradise."

skate (vi) : "to proceed in a superficial or blithe manner"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skate