I wonder if this number was fiddled with in any way to add more gumph! to Medvedev's anticorruption campaign.
--- uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
> Russia Today
> http://www.russiatoday.com/
>
> June 6, 2008
>
> $US 33 BLN a year: Russian corruption revealed
> http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/25862
>
> Corrupt officials in Russia make $US 33 billion a
> year from bribes, equal to
> a third of the national budget. Since the beginning
> of 2008, over 1,000
> bribery investigations have been launched - a record
> figure for the country.
>
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