The truly epic investigation into Russian Railways (RZD, Russia’s state-owned railway company) on Slon well answers the question, "what exactly needs to be done to stop the HELL in the economy?"
People should go to prison for this, and the system should be changed so that it not only never happens again, but becomes impossible in principle.
Read it: a third of RZD’s state contracts go to some shady, obscure adviser to Yakunin.
Until this stops, nothing will happen. No reforms, no changes, no improvements.