Show NATIONWORLD The Salt Lake Tribune Extortion Is Now I r — Commonplace in Union Ex-Sovi- et THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW L - Slava Mikhailov is trying to privatize his music store and he is fed up with lines forms r ' and delays He's says he's now te ready to grease a bureaucratic palm "as soon as I find out whom - to bribe" A traffic cop flags down a torist examines the driver's documents and accuses the man of be- ing drunk The driver argues and cajoles and several hundred rubles later is back on his way Bribery by most accounts has ' become one of the most common vices in the former Soviet Union 7 Economic chaos and a breakdown of authority has made it a favored : tool for dealing with government bureaucrats and administrators Corruption has existed for dec- I ades throughout the Soviet Union — whether in the form of a lavish dacha built expressly for Leonid Brezhnev by the Azerbaijani - Communist Party chief or in a wad of rubles furtively passed un der the counter to a clerk at a ' meat market The difference nowadays is that t bribes are brazenly sought and openly paid almost like a tax on services "The problem has become very very critical because bribes now are not just asked but demanded" said Alexander Gurov chief of the corruption and contraband unit at the Russian Security Min' istry the former KGB What's more bribery is the tip of an iceberg leading to growing corruption and organized crime Gurov said Most people attribute the uninhibited bribery to a collision between the old state-rueconomy and a new sense of personal freedom as well as a general sense of lawlessness Few people are willing to be quoted by name but tales of pay offs are everywhere: Applicants for driver's licenses say they can easily circumvent the rigorous test by bribing the examiner or simply "buying" the license The current price in Moscow: 6000 rubles (about $40 or six weeks' salary) pt then let them through without searching their bags Authorities said students in Volgograd have paid 3000 rubles apiece to avoid mandatory military service and that officers of a state-ruStavropol bank took bribes to grant easy credit to businesses Russians say the only way to bury a loved one decently and within the traditional three-damourning period is to pay off morticians undertakers and even cemetery workers from the overworked state funeral service n y Architect of Economic Reforms Defends Plans THE ASSOCIATED - PRESS Embattled acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar says reforms are moving ahead in Russia and he is brushing aside talk that he might reMOSCOW free-mark- sign "We have moved forward very seriously in changing life in this country" Gaidar said in a television interview Sunday night "The main regulatory instruments and incentives — the ability to work and earn money — are already 411 - ' 0 (0) Romance ' Adventure - - TIOIMUS i ii olloo till 4014 ' '' -- 1 I "Do What Women nrd4 Y!'irii!!'f 11:f 1 n 1i ) Cy' s N'tT t 4 donsolo anIVIS Get4 You Dare— I Y r - 4700 S 01) Travelers leaving Russia nikrArablz arzra from a Moscow airport have been seen stuffing money into the pockets of customs officers who western r1141 Institute -1 ' lt t ill d---i- I 0 s tor L-- I I : It - A ' t ti i' :: d rtit - ril - Ins- able nowv e nevim ontlt per 48 1 Fif-4 r4r 1 1 tcodaY - t at I ra ir 0- Trdittn a e 0 ea e - ' I i - milliMillmi NikililtitIL - l HmIII2100 966-138- n- FASHION PLACE 6 268-060- 621-635- i 225-775- 0 tunb rr 0' " OREM 0 M — 1111' - : 1 262 ' 67 Ise ----- - - -:- --' 85 Eastp19013150 K 703 SOUTH STATE 3354 HARRISON BLVD 4122 gOI)TH 1785 WEST 6 Yttlir 01006 - 155 EAST 6100 SOUTH SOUTH OGDEN 8 ff caw ki SUGARHOUSE WEST VALLEY 11 k '1 A I it- '2 r Die SPak -- - 1 4 t fI 2-1 OT lisel cI aclitti P HOLLADAY 1 t ( This Offer Good at All Locations - ' 1::i':)1T!J1liif-i- ' amen 07 :ti - ' e 'Limited Time Offer! 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