Citations:blat


 * 2008, Arnis Sauka, Productive, Unproductive and Destructive Entrepreneurship, page 150:
 * Similar conclusions can also be made wit regard to 'using-old-networks' activity, providing further evidence on the positive correlation between using 'old networks' (blats) in order to do business and 'irregular, additional payments' even in an advanced transition setting.
 * 2014, Alena V. Ledeneva, How Russia Really Works:
 * Although one might choose to study blat networks and the ways they operate, what one studies in this case is but one aspect of personal networks, the origins and functions of which go beyond their blat applications.

used as if it means "bribe"

 * 1954, Antoni Ekart, Vanished Without Trace: The Story of Seven Years in Soviet Russia, chapter title "Bread and blats":
 * [page 120:] To get a few extra ones [bread loaves], a blat is arranged with the man who hands [out the bread].
 * [page 125:] A blat had still to be fixed with the manager of the Univermag. Once that was arranged there was no need to stand in the queue - one simply used the staff entrance at the back of the ship.