NEWSWATCH: “Oil is the cause of Russia’s outsized corruption problem” – bne Intellinews/Ben Aris
“#Russia was wracked by protests over the weekend when an estimated 60,000 people took to the street in more than 80 cities large and small to decry rampant corruption. Russia does have an outsized corruption problem and its #oil wealth is to blame. … the Russian government has identified corruption as probably the biggest drag on growth and has launched a raft of anti-graft reforms. The problem is that it has not had much success. …”