Ilya Zaslavskiy: Making life hard for Russia’s robber barons
In early 2014, the whole world saw Ukraine's ousted pro-Kremlin president, Viktor Yanukovych, stashing cash, gold, and other valuables in his helicopter before fleeing to Moscow - the seat of a regime no less brazen than his own in the scale of its corruption. One would think that such an obvious demonstration of the institutionalized criminality at work in both countries would have provided a wake-up call for Western policymakers.