However, while the overall stability has improved in the recent years, crime and corruption continue to remain a problem hindering business development.
Endemic corruption continues to riddle the lower and middle levels of the bureaucracy.
However, endemic corruption continued as it had under his father.
All these efforts notwithstanding, corruption continues and is exposed every day by the news media.
If corruption continues to grow as it has over the past eight years, Russia's basic government institutions and civil society could soon be destroyed.
Overall, economic stability has improved in recent years; nonetheless, crime and corruption continue still hinder business development.
Universities are fee hungry and the corruption will continue.
The violence and corruption of drug traffickers continue to tear through much of the region.
But the poverty and corruption that gave rise to the movement continues to animate it today.