https://www.heritage.org/europe/report/russias-meltdown-anatomy-the-imf-failure https://www.heritage.org/europe/report/russias-meltdown-anat... A 1998 report f

https://www.heritage.org/europe/report/russias-meltdown-anatomy-the-imf-failure https://www.heritage.org/europe/report/russias-meltdown-anat... A 1998 report from the Heritage Foundation about how the IMF was giving billions of dollars to Russia for free. >There are anecdotal reports of judges being on retainer to law offices; of judges setting their bribe amount as a percentage of the claim; of lawyers paying for judges' office supplies because the government would not do so. >The courts, moreover, lack the support structures to enforce their decisions and collect fines. Filling the vacuum left by the state, organized crime has come to play a major role in commercial dispute resolution and the enforcement of court rulings. Again, this was an important cause for the low level of foreign and domestic investment, as well as being a contributing factor in capital flight. https://www.economist.com/special/1999/08/26/crime-without-punishment https://www.economist.com/special/1999/08/26/crime-without-p... >The latest money-laundering scandal in New York confirms that the evil of organised crime is woven into Russian life—and that it is starting to infect the rest of the world