July 3, 2008 Russian bureaucrats' take $US 125 billion a year http://www.russiatoday.ru/business/news/26984
Ruling party United Russia has held a special congress in Moscow to promise business leaders that it will stop interfering in their work. It follows President Medvedev's criticism of bureaucrats' influence on the Russian economy. Russian officials steal a third of the national budget, $US 125 billion a year, according to the Prosecutor General's office. http://www.russiatoday.ru/business/news/26984 _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
