Foreign equivalents of 'logrolling'

[Anna Plisetskaya]

Never heard about shurobadzhanachestvo - that is really interesting!
I've often heard in Russian: ty mne, ya tebe.
The negative meaning is expressed in the Russian proverb: Ruka ruku moet
(meaning bribes, kickbacks, corruption, thieves).
The official variant is: politika vzaimnyh uslug.

Best,
Anna
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>The Oxford dictionary translates the term as "politika 'ty mne -ja
>tebe'," which smells like a custom coinage.  Would anyone know of
>another term?  I would also be interested in equivalents from other
>Slavic languages.

A common term in Bulgarian is shurobadzhanachestvo, from shurej
'brother-in-law: wife's brother' and badzhanak 'brother-in-law:
wife's sister's brother'.
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