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MOSCOW. (Maxim Krans, RIA Novosti political...
the people, but simply divide the cash flow arriving here among themselves, who fight for contracts and then with each other to settle scores, and in corruption which, indeed, has become very widespread within law enforcement agencies too."Corrupt officials also contribute to local tensions. Valery Gizoyev, deputy head of the North Ossetian parliamentary committee for law, legality and local self-government, said, "All financial injections intended to boost the North Caucasus economy are ineffective because of corruption. Part of the money might even go to the militants."
According to analyst Svetlana Lipina, "The clan and corporate elite in power, ethnic-related in most cases, have monopolized the political and economic resources and established informal procedures for making political and administrative decisions. Can"t this be the reason why all attempts to solve North Caucasus problems by economic measures have produced no real solution?"