According to some researchers, all political powers and most important economic assets in the country are controlled by former state security officials (siloviks). The takeover of Russian state and economic assets has been allegedly accomplished by a clique of Putin's close associates and friends who gradually became a leading group of Russian oligarchs and who "seized control over the financial, media and administrative resources of the Russian state" and restricted democratic freedoms and human rights Illarionov described the present situation in Russia as a new socio-political order, "distinct from any seen in our country before". In this model, members of the Corporation of Intelligence Service Collaborators (KSSS) took over the entire body of state power, follow an omertà-like behavior code and "are given instruments conferring power over others – membership 'perks', such as the right to carry and use weapons". According to Illarionov, the "Corporation has seized key government agencies – the Tax Service, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Parliament, and the government-controlled mass media – which are now used to advance the interests of KSSS members. Through these agencies, every significant resource of the country – security/intelligence, political, economic, informational and financial – is being monopolized in the hands of Corporation members". Analyst Andrei Piontkovsky also considers the present situation as "the highest and culminating stage of bandit capitalism in Russia". He believes that "Russia is not corrupt. Corruption is what happens in all countries when businessmen offer officials large bribes for favors. Today’s Russia is unique. The businessmen, the politicians, and the bureaucrats are the same people." Slovenia The Slovene National Council, the upper house of the Slovene Parliament, has 18 members elected on a corporatist basis. See also Class collaboration Co-determination Corporate nationalism Corporate statism Cooperative Distributism Fascism Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft Gremialismo Guild Guild socialism Managerialism Mutualism (movement) Integralism National syndicalism Paritarian Institutions Pillarisation Solidarism (disambiguation) Third Position Notes References Black, Antony (1984). Guilds and civil society in European political thought from the twelfth century to present. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, . Further reading Acocella, N. and Di Bartolomeo, G. [2007], "Is corporatism feasible?", in: Metroeconomica, 58(2): 340-59. Jones, Eric. 2008. Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Small States. Oxford University Press. Jones, R. J. Barry. Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy: Entries A-F. Taylor & Frances, 2001. . Schmitter, P. (1974). "Still the Century of Corporatism?" The Review of Politics, 36(1), 85-131.