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| kleptocrat (government official who steals or embezzles money from the nation's treasury. BED. Other than in the occasional references to long-distance train rides, or the perambulations of Harding's wife around Moscow's historic architecture, there is little trace of the glory here – unsurprisingly, perhaps, in a book fuelled by rage against the kleptocrats and spooks. TG Alexander Demidov) | |||