The arrest of the speaker did not improve Russia’s position in the corruption perception Index – RBC

Former Minister of economic development of Russia Alexei Ulyukayev, accused of receiving bribes of $ 2 million in the building of the Basmanny court of Moscow

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a Loud anti-corruption investigations, including the arrest of employees of SKR, Colonel of the interior Ministry Zakharchenko and ex-Minister Alexei Ulyukayev, did not affect Russia’s position in the corruption perception Index from Transparency International.

Russia, Ukraine and Nepal

Russia has taken 131 place in the annual corruption perceptions Index, which since 1995 is the international organization Transparency International. Only the index ranks 176 countries. As follows from the materials of the study, which is available to RBC, Russia received 29 points out of a possible 100. The same figure for Iran, Kazakhstan, Nepal and Ukraine. In the 2015 index Russia occupies 119-e a place.

the leaders of the list — Denmark and New Zealand (90 points), Finland (89 points) and Sweden (88 points). Bottom of the table is located in the country where there is virtually no government installed a totalitarian regime, or war, is North Korea (12 points), South Sudan (11 points) and Somalia (10 points). They are followed by Yemen, Sudan, Libya, Afghanistan, Guinea-Bissau and Venezuela.

the corruption perceptions Index is based on several sources of expert evaluation, which “reflect the views of businessmen and analysts from different countries about the level of corruption in the public sector”. The country fell in the Transparency International index, it has to appear in at least three studies. Human rights activists estimate it is the perception of corruption, and not the level of crime in this area because the corruption often does not come to the attention of law enforcement, police statistics does not allow to fully appreciate the scale of the problem.

the Data of all studies standartisied on a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is the highest level of perceived corruption and 100 the lowest, and then calculated the average of all ratings, which falls in the Transparency International index.

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in compiling the index in 2016 was used 13 sources, which are collected for 12 different organizations over the last two years. This, in particular, the rating of quality of state management of the African development Bank, world competitiveness International Institute for management development, institutional rating systems, and state policies of the world Bank and a survey of managers of companies, the world economic forum.

No significant changes

Russia’s Position has not changed: in the previous index, the country received the same 29 points. Position change in ranking is due to the fact that this year Transparency International takes into account more countries: index was out of Seychelles, but added Bahamas, Barbados, Brunei, Dominica, Grenada, Maldives, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the Solomon Islands.

Transparency International noted that Russia has fulfilled ten of the 21 recommendations of the group of States of the Council of Europe against corruption (GRECO), the remaining 11 had been partially implemented. In addition, from 2018 Russia, along with other members of the Organization for economic cooperation and development will begin to automatically exchange financial information with tax authorities in other countries.

human rights activists emphasize that in the legislation there has been some improvement (for example, adopted a law on the black list of persons dismissed from government posts and law enforcement for corruption), but systematically practice almost unchanged. Also of the National plan on countering corruption for 2016-2017 disappeared mention the protection of those who reported on the corruption and the law on lobbying has still not been adopted.

the speaker is not affected

Recent high-profile cases against high-ranking officials and security forces, for example the arrests of the former Minister of economic development Alexei Ulyukayev, the interior Ministry Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko, senior investigators of the RCDS and General FSO, did not affect the perception of corruption in Russia, because they are not the real fight against corruption. “Actually satisfied visitors shoot dash from pre-rifles at the ducks, which the host had carefully placed on the shelves,” — emphasizes Vice-President of the international movement of Transparency International Elena Panfilova

“a Real anticorruption and subsequent development of the country is possible only when begin to strengthen institutions, the most important of which is transparent, fair elections and independent from any of the branches of power with the confidence of citizens and business system of the rule of law”, — said General Director of “transparency international — Russia” Anton Pominov.

Transparency International recommends that the Russian authorities to develop and adopt laws on lobbying activities and on the protection of whistle-blowers, to oblige law enforcement authorities to respond to public and investigative journalism, to increase the independence of election commissions. NCO also advises Russia to begin to work with the international community on the issue of return of assets and the beneficial owners.

a Separate point concerns the independence of the judiciary. Human rights activists demand to ensure the election of presidents of courts and random distribution of cases among judges within their specialization, as well as to achieve independence and economic activities of the courts from the Executive and from the administration of the President.