03.09 Trendwatcher: Glamorous Fraudsters and Debt Suicides

To call corruption on the post-Soviet landscape �shameless� is to say nothing. You might as well say that the sun is �a bit on the warm side� or that the Russian winter tends to be �somewhat chilly.�

Still, there was something particularly galling about a report by the tabloid LifeNews on the shopping trips that Yevgeniya Vasilyeva, a scandalous former Defense Ministry official, has been taking while she technically remains under house arrest.