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Thug life in Russia

Factions within the siloviki thugocracy that runs Russia, having exhausted the possibilities of looting outsiders, are turning on themselves and using the courts as weapons to jail each other. This from Robert Amsterdam, international defense counsel for jailed oligarch Mikhail…

How corrupt is Russia?

This corrupt.. Government-connected raiders use police to arrest business owners on bogus charges then force the owner to sign over their business to them else in return for being released. This happens “thousands” of times a year in Moscow, according…