From New Left Review, an overview of Putin's Russia which avoids the usual cliches about authoritarian nationalism versus oligarchic anarchy etc.  While a state apparatus riddled (compared to, say, the late 'Soviet' Politburo) with serving security personnel is active at evey level of business, so representation of the business elite within the state has actually expanded significantly since the Yeltsin era.  Unprecedented growth of state bureacracy is complimented by what some analysts call exceptional 'non-institutionalization' of public life, and certainly by the