Corruption. Russia's underrated weapons [ANALIZA]

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated the question of the function played not only by classical state instruments, but besides by illegal financial flows, corruption, opaque business networks and links between state apparatus and formally private actors. As David Lewis and Tena talker compose in the Public Integrity magazine in the article "Corruption and Revisionism: The function of Illicit Finance in Russian abroad Policy", this problem is not just about economical crime or by-product pathology of the system, but about 1 of the crucial mechanisms for implementing Russian geopolitical targets.