And colossal corruption scandals are casting a pall over the nation's political establishment.
He is well aware of Russia's colossal corruption, lawlessness and inefficiency; his recent speeches would befit an opposition leader.
Despite Adriatic Institute's warnings about Croatia, the EU closed its eyes to organized crime and colossal corruption in Croatia.
Colossal corruption scandals around the issuance of telecom licenses, the administration of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, and sale of Agusta Westland helicopters have rocked the government to its core.
Safely home in Truckee, California, he told tales of theft, corruption, and colossal incompetence.
Gorbachev, who is now in his eighties and in fragile health, has criticized the Putin government for the "colossal scope" of its corruption and for cracking down on civil-society groups.
Indeed, he learnt his dark arts as the bag carrier to Kakuei Tanaka, whom scandal forced to step down as LDP prime minister in 1974 but whose corruption on a colossal scale remains unmatched to this day.Tanaka, who died in 1993, casts a long shadow still.
He ran against an aging GOP candidate saddled with the colossal burden of a divided, corruption- and scandal-plagued GOP, a Saturday Night Live joke line vice presidential running mate, a tanking economy, an unpopular war, and a GOP president whose ocean bottom ratings made Hoover Hoover look like the second coming of Lincoln.
He talked about other damaging aspects of Suárez's legacy — most of all, the way the regional nationalism of Catalonia and the Basque country were addressed with "artificial constructs" that "burdened Spain with colossal costs and endless opportunities for corruption".
Witness London's first "kleptocracy" tour this week, during which campaigners connected to Alexei Navalny, Russia's opposition leader, lawyer and critic of corruption, visited a series of colossal piles which demonstrate just where you can get to in all this.
Images of the rush hour nightmare were tweeted by Anil Sood, who captioned them: "Corruption, inefficiency, robbery, fleecing of Commuters colossal national waste of precious FE man hours".
