Word: blatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...multinational corporations with an eye to cheap supplies. Others are front men for organized crime or outlaw regimes, part of a swelling tide of agents who haunt export harbors on the Baltic Sea and travel the countryside. For help, many turn to Russians skilled in the use of blat (personal connections) and vzyatki (bribes) to oil the gears of the postempire black market...