by user Plubius What with Russia’s struggling economy, murky politics, and all those human rights abuses: the state of the Russian Armed Forces is not good. The Russian military has always encountered many problems in the past - but today, there are still many reports of hazing, corruption, poor working conditions and so on. Soldiers are often unpaid and those who are payed are often coerced into giving their salaries to more senior ranking soldiers. Just recently, reports have revealed that senior ranking soldiers have been "renting out lower ranking officers to clients." __NOEDITSECTION__