Over the past year the Kremlin’s biggest political headache hasn’t come from the anemic political opposition; it has come instead from a groundswell of resentment against Russia’s spectacularly corrupt, inept, and brutal police. A series of revelations of just how corrupt—from a police major’s YouTube video about the corruption of his colleagues, to the confessions of paramilitary police officers about arrest quotas and police protection rackets—have sparked protests from a wide cross section of ordinary people. Public trust in the police has cratered; according to a recent survey by the Moscow-based Levada Center, more than 70 percent of Russians distrust all branches of law enforcement. More...
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