Alena LedenevaAlena Ledeneva is Professor of Politics and Society at University College London and a founder of the Global Informality Project (in-formality.com). She authored the trilogy on Russia: Russia's Economy of Favours (1998), How Russia Really Works (2006 and Can Russia Modernize? (2013), and edited The Global Encyclopedia of Informality. Vols. 1-3 (2018, 2024). Read More Read Less