Minimal flavor violation in supersymmetric theories

10 pages. Talk given at the Flavianet Topical Workshop "Low energy constraints on extensions of the Standard Model", July 23-27, Kazimierz, PolandThe minimal flavor violation hypothesis is presented in the context of the MSSM. Its fundamental principles are introduced and motivated, and its phenomenological consequences for FCNC and CP-violating observables as well as for R-parity violating processes are briefly described