Blat (favors)

In Russian, blat (Russian: блат) is a form of corruption which is the system of informal agreements, exchanges of services, connections, Party contacts, or black market deals to achieve results or get ahead. Along with "blat" there existed a term of "protektsiya", which literally means protection, but with more incline to patronage. Similarly in semantics there exists a term "krysha" which derived from criminal environment and literally means a roof. An example of such patronage was depicted in a fantasy sketch by the writer Mikhail Bulgakov:

Blat (favors)

In Russian, blat (Russian: блат) is a form of corruption which is the system of informal agreements, exchanges of services, connections, Party contacts, or black market deals to achieve results or get ahead. Along with "blat" there existed a term of "protektsiya", which literally means protection, but with more incline to patronage. Similarly in semantics there exists a term "krysha" which derived from criminal environment and literally means a roof. An example of such patronage was depicted in a fantasy sketch by the writer Mikhail Bulgakov: