Like So Many "Businessmen" IN POST-communist Russia, Yevgeny Roitman had things going his way-for a while.
He wants a radical break with the cartels, sleaze and weak institutions of the post-communist era.
And Bulgaria, despite being one of the poorest post-communist countries of eastern Europe, is losing ground.
So far, his career, in keeping with post-communist Russia, has been marked by cronyism and authoritarianism.
By post-communist standards, Mr Laar is an impressive politician, with a huge zest for work.
Pyramid schemes in post-communist Albania wrecked the economy, sparked riots and helped to destroy the government.
In the early post-communist years, the trend was to give judges great independence but low salaries.
The post-communist leader reckons the post-fascist fellow is now his chief counterpart on the democratic right.
It was not until the post-communist years that some light was shed on the subject.
To be fair, cynicism and timidity over reform are not unique to the post-communist bit of Europe.
Local businessmen trying to get going in the post-communist era are hamstrung by corruption and red tape.
It is the post-communist version of a toll-road, guaranteeing that no one looks closely at the cargo.
Indeed, their mutual antipathy cuts to the heart of how a post-communist society and how Europe in general should evolve.
Some friction with post-communist Russia was inevitable, if only because of Russian resentment of America's new geopolitical pre-eminence.
One product that's proved especially popular in the post-Communist shopping spree is cars.
The time for building a post-communist consensus to heal old wounds has gone.
For all that, it is rare and welcome for a post-communist politician even to consider learning from another country.
This infuriates Hungarians, who worry that it could sour one of their greatest post-communist feats: the befriending of Romania.
Outside involvement, whether public or private, charitable or commercial, was supposed to be temporary, as it has been in other post-communist countries.
Lack of speed and efficiency in these areas severely hobbled many of the post-communist economies in eastern and central Europe.
Another has been ejected from public life because he worked for the WSI as a consultant in the post-communist era.
ECONOMIST: The job of Poland's government is reform, not revenge
His next goal may be to win the presidency himself in 2015, sealing his position as Poland's dominant post-communist politician.
The SLD leader Leszek Miller has promised to make life better for average Poles left behind in the country's post-communist boom.
Later, in post-Communist Poland, he tried to reduce mistrust between Catholics and Jews, making public apologies for historical acts of anti-Semitism.
In the early post-communist days, deregulation did, of course, have its advantages.
But market-research data, anecdote and simple observation all suggest that the economy has recovered from the post-communist crunch a bit more smartly.
The first referendum in Bulgaria's post-Communist history has polarised opinion and is seen as a precursor of general elections later this year.
As in most post-communist countries, cheating in schools and universities is habitual.
Foreign banks, which dominate the banking systems in post-communist countries such as Poland and Hungary, have so far been extremely cautious about Russia.
So far the leaders of post-communist Russia have recognised that it makes good sense to stay on amicable terms with America and Europe.
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