OECD Report: Russia Is ‘A Weak State’

Russia must forge ahead with significant administrative, judicial and economic reforms if it is to make a clean break with its business-stifling Soviet legacy, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in a toughly worded report released Monday.

The Paris-based OECD, which represents a group of industrialized nations, said Russia deserved praise for the reforms it had already undertaken, but much needs to be done to get rid of rampant corruption and heavy-handed state intrusion in the economy.