Also, just as an additional note: it is not just Russia doing this. Countries where extradition is not an option generally tend to have the largest amount of cyber crime. The list includes China[1], Germany[4], Russia, Japan[3] and France[2]. People in these countries generally target Americans, since USA has the second largest amount of internet users (245,203,319) [5] and has one of the highest GDP in the world[6]. Recently a security firm investigated a Facebook virus called KoobFace and found out its Russian authors, however, they were unable to prosecute them due to Russian Laws[7]
[1]http://www.gov.cn/english/laws/2005-09/22/content_68710.htm
[2]http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/content/download/1958/13719/ve...
[3]http://www.moj.go.jp/ENGLISH/information/loe-01.html
[4]http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.ht...
[5]http://www.internetworldstats.com/list2.htm