Vladimir Putin has tamed the gangster capitalism which accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union to make Russian corruption "normal and civilised," his presidential election campaign chief, well-known film director Stanislav Govorukhin, 75, said in an interview. "Putin didn't give birth to it. Corruption existed in tsarist Russia," Govorukhin stated. "In the 1990s, there was no corruption. Instead it was a thieving outrage, open plunder. Billions were stolen, factories and whole industry sectors. They destroyed and stole, they ground Russia into dust," he told the Trud daily newspaper. "Today we have returned to 'normal', 'civilised' corruption," Govorukhin added. Russia is ranked as the most corrupt country in the Group of 20 by anti-corruption campaign group Transparency International, though in 2011 it rose to 143rd place in the 183-country index, beside Nigeria and Uganda, from 154th place in 2010.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/02/10/uk-russia-putin-idUKTRE8190NZ20120210
http://www.trud.ru/article/10-02-2012/272339_mitingi_na_bolotnoj_tolko_podnjali_rejting_putina.html (interview)
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