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Experts say Red Square parade masks weakened Russia military

Posted by Matt in May 5th, 2008

But the army, the pension system, public health, secondary education and the road system have all eroded on Putin’s watch, former government ministers Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov wrote in a recent report, “Putin: The Bottom Line.”

The main cause, they charge, is “Russia’s dive into an unprecedented mire of corruption” that flows throughout the government.

INDEM, a Moscow-based research foundation, has reported that the volume of corrupt business conducted in Russia rose from $36 billion in 2001 to around $319 billion in 2005, its latest published data.

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