Shuttle traders (russian: челноки, lit=shuttles, translit=chelnoki; ) were people engaged in the practice of shuttle trading in late

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

and

post-soviet states The post-Soviet states, also known as the former Soviet Union (FSU), the former Soviet Republics and in Russia as the near abroad (russian: links=no, ближнее зарубежье, blizhneye zarubezhye), are the 15 sovereign states that wer ...

in which traders shuttle backwards and forwards in and out of the country buying goods and then selling them within the country. Originated during the '' perestroika'' times, it extended well beyond time of the

collapse of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...

. The

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defines shuttle trade as "the activity in which individual entrepreneurs buy goods abroad and import them for resale in street markets or small shops. Often the goods are imported without full declaration in order to avoid import duties."

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Jamestown.org article

OECD ''Glossary of Statistical Terms'' definition
* Zabyelina, Y. (2012). �
Costs and Benefits of Informal Economy: Shuttle Trade and Crime at Cherkizovsky Market
” ''Global Crime'', Volume 13, No. 2, pp. 95-108. Economy of Russia Second economy of the Soviet Union

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