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Car thefts
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26,106 |
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[19th of 46]
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Convicted
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1,183,630 |
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[3rd of 34]
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Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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15.37 %
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[18th of 39]
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Illicit drugs
limited cultivation of illicit cannabis and opium poppy and producer of methamphetamine, mostly for domestic consumption; government has active illicit crop eradication program; used as transshipment point for Asian opiates, cannabis, and Latin American cocaine bound for growing domestic markets, to a lesser extent Western and Central Europe, and occasionally to the US; major source of heroin precursor chemicals; corruption and organized crime are key concerns; major consumer of opiates |
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Jails
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739 |
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[7th of 80]
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Manslaughters
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1,674 |
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[7th of 42]
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Murders
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28,904 |
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[2nd of 49]
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Murders committed by youths
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7,885 |
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[4th of 73]
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Murders committed by youths per capita
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18 |
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[7th of 57]
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Prisoners
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846,967 prisoners |
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[3rd of 168]
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Prisoners > Female
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5.8% |
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[31st of 134]
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Prisoners > Foreign prisoners
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1.7% |
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[59th of 86]
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Prisoners > Per capita
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584 per 100,000 people |
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[2nd of 164]
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Rapes
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6,978 |
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[10th of 50]
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Robberies
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132,393 |
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[5th of 47]
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Software piracy rate
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73% |
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[38th of 107]
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Total crimes
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2,952,370 |
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[6th of 50]
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Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Russia is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for various purposes; it remains a significant source of women trafficked to over 50 countries for commercial sexual exploitation; Russia is also a transit and destination country for men and women trafficked from Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and North Korea to Central and Western Europe and the Middle East for purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation; internal trafficking remains a problem in Russia with women trafficked from rural areas to urban centers for commercial sexual exploitation, and men trafficked internally and from Central Asia for forced labor in the construction and agricultural industries; debt bondage is common among trafficking victims, and child sex tourism remains a concern |
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Russia is on the Tier 2 Watch List for a fifth consecutive year for its failure to show evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking over the previous year, particularly in providing assistance to victims of trafficking; comprehensive trafficking victim assistance legislation, which would address key deficiencies, has been pending before the Duma since 2003 and was neither passed nor enacted in 2007 |
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Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
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2 |
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[107th of 143]
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... View all Crime stats
SOURCES: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002)
(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); World Development Indicators database; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002)
(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study; Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets
Ray Fisman Edward Miguel
Columbia University and NBER University of California, Berkeley and NBER 2006
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Russia, Russian Federation, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, Rossiya
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