February 16, 2010 By Grigory Pasko

Grigory Pasko: How Russia Spends its Corruption Proceeds

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It’s good to have a president. Even better – a blogger-president. A non-blogger wouldn’t have even noticed that agencies, in an attempt to complicate the search for information on a site, are changing Cyrillic letters to Latin ones in announcements of tenders.

By the way, even before Mr. Medvedev, internet communities had initiated their own researches as well. For example, in October of the year 2009, the LiveJournal community zakupki_news checked on what automobiles federal officials are purchasing towards the end of the year of crisis. It turned out that out of 818 cars ordered, a mere 44% – were domestic marques, and in the cost volume – 24%.

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Here are but certain curious facts about the expenditure of state funds. The state institution Avialesookhrana [the Central Base for the Aviational Protection of Forests–Trans.] had a mind to purchase a Lexus LS 600h with a massage seat for 5.9 mln rubles for “the creation of a portable mobile forest-fire command center”. The procuracy for some reason impeded.

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