Aggressors may use their military-administrative apparatus and monopoly position in seized or colonized territories to create a system of shadow levies and systematic extortion. Representatives of the occupation administration artificially erect bureaucratic, logistical, and legal barriers, forcing the Indigenous population to pay unregulated bribes to exercise basic rights — to conduct trade, to move freely, or to keep their property. This practice is used for the direct extraction of benefits through the illegal enrichment of the metropole's apparatus at the expense of the local population's resources. At the same time, it serves as an instrument of institutional consolidation of control, as it turns arbitrariness into the norm and demonstrates to the colonized society its absolute lack of rights before the aggressor's officials.
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| S0012 | Occupation and Controlled Administrations |
The occupation administration of the Tsardom of Muscovy engaged in systemic lawless arbitrariness against the Indigenous population: the historian Sh. B. Akhmadov states that «the venality and bribe-taking of the voivodes, who permitted themselves great abuses — all this was far from a new phenomenon»[1]. |
| C1124 | Punitive Raids and the Economic Strangulation of the Nokhchi (1691–1700) |
The occupation administration of the Tsardom of Muscovy engaged in systemic lawless arbitrariness against the Indigenous population: the historian Sh. B. Akhmadov states that «the venality and bribe-taking of the voivodes, who permitted themselves great abuses — all this was far from a new phenomenon»[1]. |
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy |
The occupation administration of the Tsardom of Muscovy engaged in systemic lawless arbitrariness against the Indigenous population: the historian Sh. B. Akhmadov states that «the venality and bribe-taking of the voivodes, who permitted themselves great abuses — all this was far from a new phenomenon»[1]. |