Corruption. Russia's underestimated weapons [ANALYSIS]

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has sharpened the question of what function not only classical state instruments play in Russian abroad policy, but besides illicit financial flows, corruption, opaque business networks, and links between the state apparatus and formally private actors. As David Lewis and Tena Prelec compose in the diary Public Integrity in their article "Corruption and Revisionism: The function of Illicit Finance in Russian abroad Policy", this problem is not limited to economical crime or collateral pathologies of the system, but concerns 1 of the crucial mechanisms for implementing Russia's geopolitical goals.