And steal and watch

Not a single important state business can be done today without the prefix “national”. We are not just fighting corruption (or pretending to be) - we have a National Anti-Corruption Plan. True, the plan itself, as usual, does not exist yet, but there is a draft national plan - it was presented by the head of the presidential administration Sergei Naryshkin to Dmitry Medvedev.

There are two interesting points in this regard. Firstly, he once again proposes to expand the powers of the already all-powerful law enforcement agencies. It turns out that in order to fight corruption, you simply need to wiretap everyone. Nowadays, the use of technical means (the same wiretapping) is possible only if there is a suspicion of committing a particularly serious corruption crime. The new legislation proposes to use the technique in the development of those people who are suspected of committing less serious crimes.

The second joy is the state media protection program. The idea is to protect journalists conducting anti-corruption investigations as witnesses. As GZT.ru writes, NGOs fighting corruption should also be protected. The idea is good, but in the current Russian realities it looks absurd. From whom, I wonder, will the state program protect journalists? From the prosecutor's office, which so loves to open cases of “extremism”, from the Russian courts, from the native authorities, who are always ready to “pull down” anyone who dares to “blurt”? Somehow I don’t really believe it.