There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.
I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves.
The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
From the country with limited hope to grow your own business and express your own personality, Russia has become the land of significant opportunity.
Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.
The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
The Yanukovych regime is a mafia, which regularly threatens, imprisons, murders, or disappears political opponents as well as those whose possessions it covets.
Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.
The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not corrupt because Vladimir Putin has absolute power. Russian government has been corrupt and will always be as long as anyone has absolute power.
I don't have any opinions about Russians. There are celebrity persons in each country. Different people do different things.