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The Caviar Connection
How to buy democracy
2021·1h 44m·★ 7.2
French original
Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan are dictatorial regimes that constantly violate the most basic rights of their citizens. However, thanks to a successful combination of soft power and corruption, they have been able to clean up their reputation and become trading partners of many Western countries, whose governments choose to ignore the long list of their notorious crimes.
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Standard sit-down · 1h 44m
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