Foreign equivalents of 'logrolling'

[Andrew Hicks]

Thanks, as always, to the collective intelligence of SEELANGS.
Regarding both 'kumovstvo' and the wonderful 'shurobadzhanachestvo,' can
these terms apply to relationships not based on kinship?

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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'.

That would be Russian "kumovstvo". In a negative sense Russians like to
quote Krylov: "Za chto kukushka xvalit petuxa, za to chto xvalit on
kukushku."

In a positive sense, it might be "krugovaja poruka", although it could
be
perceived or used as a negative one as well, as in code of silence, for
ex.

AI

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