Apparently Russians are so used to corruption in the streets that they've installed dashboard cams to catch crooked cops and scam artists in the act.
The dash-cams also allowed us to see amazing footage of the Russian meteor strike. Here's the Daily Show's Russia Briefing complete with Russian dash-cam Supercut.
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Transparency International, a global organization that studies corruption and advocates for government transparency, ranked Russia 146th out of 180 countries in its Global Corruptions Perceptions Index, which measures the perceived level of corruption in countries and territories around the world. While Russia's ranking improved slightly in the following years, jumping to 133rd place out of 176 in the 2012 survey, Transparency International conculded that the country still suffers from every form of corruption.Check out this photo essay of corruption in Russia.
One example:
A young man beating a woman on a Moscow street, while the police and bystanders looked on without intervening. It was reported last year that a third of Russian woman are subject to domestic violence and that it kills as many as 14,000 women annually.
New Posts on Google Docs Page
To see the rest of the story on the Russian Punk Rockers Protest Prison Wish (with full video of the act that resulted in 2 years in a prison camp), access the class Google Docs Page. Also, new there today, power points on Teaching Russia's Tandemocracy 2010; China Notes 2011; A Man Like Putin 2013 and the CCP Today.
New Posts on Google Docs Page
To see the rest of the story on the Russian Punk Rockers Protest Prison Wish (with full video of the act that resulted in 2 years in a prison camp), access the class Google Docs Page. Also, new there today, power points on Teaching Russia's Tandemocracy 2010; China Notes 2011; A Man Like Putin 2013 and the CCP Today.
1 comment:
The fact that Russia is so corrupt, that a man can get away with beating a woman on the streets with officers nearby is disgusting. It shows that Russian citizens don't have a good police system/protection, and without this, no country can progress. Security is necessary, and honestly, with all the corruption in Russia, there doesn't seem to be much of that.
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