That books are cooked to boost earnings, or that opaque regulations can waste months, is hardly news.
(Agora's turn came on March 27th, when it received a request from prosecutors to hand over documents by next week).Life has never been that easy for civic-society groups in Russia, especially for those active on issues the state considers politically sensitive: throughout the Putin era, their work has been complicated by opaque regulations and the targeted use of bureaucratic pressure.
Nonetheless, the headlong rush to nuclear power is more dangerous and less necessary than China's government admits.One of the main lessons of Fukushima was that politicised, opaque regulation is dangerous.
The tax code is opaque and regulations for business are notoriously complex.
They say they are frustrated with the corruption, poor quality control, theft of intellectual property, opaque investment regulations and hidden state subsidies.
Getting a toehold in Asia was particularly time-consuming, but the firm now has an office with 40 people in Shanghai that helps with local project oversight, models, presentations to clients and the notoriously opaque building regulations in Chinese cities.The ease of exchanging information around the world has fuelled fears that even service jobs will be outsourced away from America.
For these emerging economies, where loose regulation, opaque privatization processes and monopolistic business practices abound, this extraordinary and uneven creation of wealth rivals in many ways the great American fortunes made at the turn of the 20th century.
One of the cleverest men in American business has made a giant, expensive bet on an industry whose future is opaque because of murky regulation and fast-changing technology.
In theory, such fears will disappear under new political masters.Far more useful would be details of how Mr Modi would slash regulation, taking opaque, discretionary powers from civil servants and politicians.
And his book also reminds us that these banks are fighting tooth and nail to make sure the game stays as rigged as possible, fighting regulation of opaque derivatives and prohibitions on proprietary trading.
Few countries have presented such an opaque facade, and more visa regulations, to the outside world.
