Issue 4279. Last Updated: 11/20/2009

Everyone Pays, Few Want To Stop

By Francesca Mereu
People living in Russia pay $319 billion a year in bribes, according to Indem, a Moscow-based research center that tracks corruption. That amounts to about $2,250 for each of the country's 142 million citizens.

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