WORLD BANK INVESTS IN RUSSIA JUDICIAL SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE WORLD Bank and the Russian government are financing a joint project to strengthen Russia's judicial system, widely perceived as incompetent and corrupt. The bank is lending US$50 million to a Judicial Reform Support Project (JRSP), which will receive US$122.41 from the Russian government. The project, said a World Bank memorandum, will "increase transparency and efficiency within the judiciary" and "improve the efficiency and predictability of the arbitration court system". This will be achieved by installing IT to improve case management; ...
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