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Originally Posted by Thor
After the collapse the mafia and Oligarchs took over, and still today the Oligarchs are major influencers of power and policy, even Putin has to bow down to some of these guys.
The corruption is so bad out there, any Canadian company working out there can tell you about that, getting pulled over by the cops means your going to have to pay to get released.
My brother in law works for Icelandair, 1 month of the year he's sent out to work in Russia, last time he was out there he was pulled over for nothing, taken to a police station where the police tried to coerce money out of him, this is in Moscow. He refused, stood fast, and eventually they let him go.
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They have a saying over there that during the communist days, they had politicians and mafia. After communism fell, they only have politicians.