They also want to issue hard-currency bonds to domestic savers an odd idea, seeing that nothing short of the knout is likely, in the present chaos, to induce Russians to lend their remaining dollars to the state. |
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The Russian knout, consisting of a number of dried and hardened thongs of rawhide interwoven with wire the wires often being hooked and sharpened so that they tore the flesh was even more painful and deadly. |
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He was determined to help establish liberal values and institutions — civil society, free speech, democratic norms — in a land that, for a thousand years, had known only absolutism, empire, and the knout. |
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Clinging to their traditional trust in the efficiency of the knout, people shrugged their shoulders, and said that there would probably be a few scuffles, but that the demonstrators would be easily dispersed. |
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Torture in a public school is as much licensed as the knout in Russia. |
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