InspectorLateral Thinking50 XP

The search team did not begin looking for the bodies until August 24 — fifteen days after Utochenko was found by kayakers and filed a police report. In a functioning investigation, this delay would be scandalous. But this was August 1993 in Russia. Name the major national political crisis occurring in Russia in 1993 that would have severely degraded the administrative capacity of regional authorities, and explain how it could plausibly have contributed to the investigative delay.