How Anti-Corruption Laws Work in Russia

Author(s): Svetlana Tulaeva
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 92
Pages: 9-12
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute of History, University of Basel
Publication Year: 2011

This article examines the corrupt practices that companies use to rent forest plots. The analysis traces the development of the forestry law on auctions, which should have guaranteed honest competition for all participants and blocked informal relations between bureaucrats and businessmen. Unfortunately, in practice, the law's implementation leads to new corrupt practices aimed at circumventing the recently imposed legal barriers.

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