[16:48 - 17:09] The State's Approval and the Birth of a New Corruption

But beyond that, party affiliation was no longer important. What was important was that it was approved by the state. This seal of quality was approved by the state, and there was no alternative. And this gradually gives birth to another type of corrupt pressure, which, and this, by the way, journalists, and Novaya Gazeta itself, they said: 'We fought corruption for so long that we overlooked the war.' That in the shadow of this corruption, war is brewing.