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Russian to English: The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism
Source text - Russian Американский читатель не сразу поймет, до какой степени дошла монополизация в России, если ее экономика получила прозвище «олигархической». Концентрация капитала в США достаточно велика, и читатель, должно быть, думает, что российский капитализм в этом отношении лишь повторяет американский образец. Но сравнение этих двух стран показывает, как мало они похожи друг на друга и какая между ними глубокая пропасть. В Америке, например, на долю 25 крупнейших корпораций приходится 25 процентов рыночной стоимости всех акций в стране, а на долю 500 компаний – 63 процента. Это – высокие цифры, свидетельствующие о доминирующей роли большого бизнеса в американской экономике. Но в России на долю всего лишь 50 компаний приходится больше 90 процентов всей рыночной стоимости акций, котирующихся на фондовых биржах страны. Очевидно, что уровень концентрации капитала здесь несравненно выше, чем в США.
Translation - English American readers may not immediately grasp the degree of monopolization in Russia, which justifies calling its economy “oligarchical.” There is a fairly high concentration of capital in the United States; readers may think that Russian capitalism is merely following that model. A comparison of the two countries, however, reveals great dissimilarities and a deep abyss between them. The 25 biggest corporations in America, for example, account for 25 percent of the market value of all stock shares; the top 500 companies account for 63 percent. Those are high numbers, and they testify to the dominance of big business in the American economy. But in Russia, 50 companies account for over 90 percent of the total market value of shares listed on Russian stock exchanges. Obviously this bespeaks an incomparably greater concentration of capital than there is in the USA.
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I have 40 years of experience in translation from Russian to English, including the translation of books by the Russian economists Sergei Glazyev and Stanislav Menshikov, and scientific articles by Academician V.I. Vernadsky. My background as a writer and editor includes editing of Ru > En translations, initially done by non-native speakers of English.
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