Visitors flying into Moscow confront a sign when they present their passports for inspection; “It is forbidden to offer souvenir or money to offer or money to officials.”
Bribery at airports in just one sign of Russia’s endemic corruption gnawing at the government, the law enforcement, the forces, the banking system, the state-owned media and business.
Russia has always been from early Tsarist times, when officials wages comprised nothing but bribus,to the Soviet era, when Communist party functionaries colluded with criminal gangs in a number of ways to exploit the state monopoly over the economy