... hand, or suffer. This led to black market originally and the concept of corruption has been expanded to a broader playing field, a market economy. Democracy prevailed in Russia in 1991 under Boris Yeltsin after the fall of Gorbachev and the Soviet Union. Successful reforms in Russia or any country for that matter are not due to sound government, but sound business (Jasper). The ... same KGB officers of the Soviet came back into power when Yeltsin hired many of them for his new government. The KGB consolidated powers with the mafia and took over private businesses. They exploited private...

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