As Russia braces for a day of anti-Kremlin rallies Sunday, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is barred from running in the March presidential elections, says President Vladimir Putin is afraid of real competition. read more
To me, that is a picture of corruption." The US government imposed sanctions against a number of Kremlin insiders in 2014 and stated that Vladimir Putin had secret investments in the energy sector. However, the Americans did not directly accuse him of corruption at the time. read more
Russia had become an utterly corrupt country under Boris Yeltsin, but when Vladimir Putin came to power, he actually started to fight corruption. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a lot of state companies were illegally seized by members of the Communist Party. read more