Self -disclosure

Rashid Nurgaliev and Yuri Chaika told the Dumans how they are won by corruption of three high -ranking officials yesterday: Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev and the chairman of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev told deputies on the parliamentary hour about how their departments, realizing the provisions of the Presidential Assembly, were fighting the federal assembly. with corruption. In fact, officials admitted that while they were not won, but corruption. “Over the five years, the number of crimes of identified crimes against state power, the interests of the state and municipal service have increased half,” the Minister of the Interior reported. The Prosecutor General admitted that corruption "permeates all levels of power."

Yesterday's report of corruption fighters in the Duma was just a rehearsal. The main action will unfold on November 21 in the Kremlin, where President Vladimir Putin will hold a special anti -corruption meeting.

Putin announced the war of corruption, acting in the spring of this year with an annual message to the deputies of the Federal Assembly. In June, he changed the prosecutor general, concluding that Vladimir Ustinov’s inability to lead the prosecutor’s attack on corrupt officials. Ustinov, the former Minister of Justice, Yuri Chaika, in July, approved the prosecutor's opposition to corruption. By the beginning of November, the Prosecutor General’s Office checked the legality of 11 ministries and departments. And I revealed, according to the first deputy of the Seagull Alexander Buksman, "47 thousand violations of the legislation on state and municipal service." 600 criminal cases were established.

Corruption on the march

During the prosecutor’s verification of the implementation of the legislation on civil service in 11 federal ministries and services, over 47 thousand violations of the law were identified, about 600 criminal cases related to corruption were instituted, more than 2.5 thousand state and municipal employees were brought to disciplinary and administrative responsibility. But in general, according to Yuri Chaika, the work of law enforcement agencies cannot be recognized as sufficient.

“Almost half of the crimes of 6 thousand committed in 2005 by officials against the interests of the service, on the account of employees of the system of the Ministry of the Interior. Of the 6.5 thousand official crimes registered for 9 months of this year, there are completely more than 2.5 thousand law enforcement officials, ”the prosecutor general shared sad statistics.

Yuri Chaika believes that it is possible to curb corruption by strengthening the requirements for applicants for the positions of prosecutors and investigators.

In turn, Rashid Nurgaliev said that in order to win over corruption, it was necessary to reveal banking and commercial secrets. And also establish tough financial control over income and property of officials and members of their families. Corresponding amendments are proposed to be made to the law "On the State Civil Service".

Vyacheslav Lebedev believes: that “not only prepared, but also respectable people who meet the principles of judicial ethics” come to the judicial corps, in addition to the Academy of Justice, a special “institution of training judges” needs.

The deputies did not stay away from the discussion. Nikolai Sapozhnikov, deputy chairman of the committee on credit organizations and financial markets, asked if the origins of corruption in the practice of appointing senior officials, including from the presidential administration to the councils of directors of the largest joint -stock companies, for example Gazprom and Rosneft are living. But he never received an answer.

Member of the Committee on the Regulation and Organization of the work of the State Duma Communist Valery Rashkin said that during the period of political domination of “United Russia” in the Duma and regional structures, the volume of corruption deals doubled. “The annual volume of corruption, according to the deputy general of the prosecutor Alexander Buksman, is comparable to the state budget and reached $ 240 billion. And this is seven times more than in 2002, when United Russia gained full control over the lower house,” Valery Rashkin counted. United Russia answered him with obstruction, Rashkin was practically deprived of the word.

The president’s anti -corruption campaign is caused by the approaching elections to both the State Duma and the Kremlin. The Russian state apparatus, penetrated from top to bottom, by recognition of the authorities itself, bribery and lobbying, is an excellent target, in the shooting at which those who consider themselves in opposition or “United Russia” will be recruited at the shooting. It gives all this, if not the "orange revolution", then it is certainly flaming. The mass voter needs indicative processes over corrupt officials. In addition, cleaning should make the state apparat work more efficiently. As you know, riots are born in lines.

Why is corruption invincible

However, one Prosecutor General, even reinforced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, will not cope with corruption. Because law enforcement officers are fighting the consequences, and not with the causes of bribery. Georgy Satarov, the head of the Indem public fund, told the newspaper that the growth of corruption is primarily associated with the enhanced role of the state in most sectors of the economy, and officials, as you know, are sold.

In other words, the main culprit of corruption in Russia is the state itself. The fact is that now the Russian state simultaneously performs two contradictory functions: it regulates the market and plays it itself. The contradiction is removed by growing corruption.

Meanwhile, zones in which bureaucracy can act at its discretion (and this is a classic environment for the spread of corruption) only expand. Example: a bill to restrict the access of foreign investors, developed by the Ministry of Industry by order of the President. The entrance ticket to foreigners in 40 sectors will be issued by a certain state -owned body based on more than fogically prescribed criteria. So the state itself in practice cultivates corruption. Here no general prosecutor's office will help.

How deputies are fighting corruption

The parliamentarians decided to take the problem of corruption six years ago six years ago. In February 2000, a resolution of the State Duma of the last convocation formed a special commission to combat corruption, the tasks of which included the verification of existing laws and preparing bills for corruption. The deputies of the current convocation also opened their own anti -corruption body, called the Corruption Commission. The decision on its creation was made in April 2004.

However, there is no need to talk about the effectiveness of parliamentary anti -corruption inspections of the legislation. It is enough to turn to statistics: over the year, members of the commission are preparing 2-3 conclusions for the bills in question in the State Duma, which provide an analysis of their potential corruption.

So, according to the report on the work of the State Duma Commission on Countering Corruption for 2004, the deputies conducted an examination of only two bills: “On amendments and amendments to Article 16 of the Federal Law“ On Advertising ”(in terms of establishing legal restrictions on beer advertising) and“ On the introduction of the addition of joint -stock companies ”(regarding the expansion of the lists of transactions that are transformed, which are are not interested transactions). According to parliamentarians themselves, many of their comments on these documents were eventually taken into account. In 2005, the commission also conducted two anti -corruption examinations of bills: “On amendments and additions to the Federal Law“ On Medicines ”(in terms of delimitation of powers between executive authorities in the field of drug circulation) and the draft Federal Law“ On Protection of Competition ”. And in 2006, the commission has so far have three examinations: amendments to the Law“ On privatization of the state and privatization of state and privatization of the state and privatization of the state and privatization Municipal property "and Article 28 of the Federal Law" On Joint -Stock Companies ", the bill" On Compulsory Civil Insurance for Civil Liability for the Operation of a Dangerous Object ", as well as the Federal Law prepared by the Group of Deputies of the Federal Law" On State Regulation of the Organization and Conducting Gambling and Paris and on Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation ".

In the country - stabilization. Why then is corruption growing?

Valery Gazzaev / Constance Coach CSKA:

“Who said that our corruption is growing? Minister of the Interior? Here he has about it and ask, he will answer you better! "

Alexandra Burataeva /

State Duma deputy:

“Good question! Recently, at least they recognized the fact of corruption and began to fight with it - and this can already be called progress. Not so long ago they said that it is not and in general we are fine. And now there are already some indicative cases, and at least someone is punished for it! This means that the state recognized that in its ranks there are such, to put it mildly, unscrupulous officials. In one day, it is impossible to overcome corruption, since it penetrated literally into all areas of activity. This is our "national tradition" with which we are permanently trying to fight. "

Leonid Gozman /

Deputy Chairman of the Political Council of the ATP:

“Firstly, corruption may not contradict stability and be one of its factors. Another question is, do we want the stability that is based on corruption? And is it really now in the country stabilization, or maybe its period ends and some other begins? After all, after stabilization, changes always come. ”

Lyudmila Hityaeva /

People's Artist of the USSR:

“I don’t have to ask me about this, but those who cultivate and popularize corruption. In my opinion, just now in the Duma and the debate is going on about bribery. I don’t know how effective it will be, but we still turned to this terrible scourge at least a face. Previously, people were planted for a small bribe, but now it has blossomed so much that the millionth offerings have become real. But I am very far from this, I am disgusted, and I don’t want to talk about this topic. ”

Alexander Gurov /

Professor of criminal law, member of the State Duma Security Committee:

“Corruption is corruption, and stabilization is stabilization. These are completely different things. But imagine that today corruption is a guarantor of stability. Well, one group of officials began to expose another, and they also took out compromising evidence, and so went and went that there was no one to rule the state! And when everyone has compromising evidence for everyone, then everyone is sitting and calmly the sovereign are doing things.

All this, of course, is a joke. But here is a historical fact. One of the Russian kings in the XVIII or XIX century checked which of the governors took a bribe. It turned out that only two out of fifty -two did not take. The first such governor was well educated and brought up, and the other is very rich. That is, corruption was almost universal, but Russia also increased! The governor took with one hand, and attached the other sovereign.

And now the official takes with both hands, and he does not have enough power to attach these very hands. In my opinion, corruption and stability are better than corruption and instability. Before Putin, Russia has already been divided into six to seven republics, and now our country is a monolith! And the governors now at least be combed. In Turkey, in the Middle Ages, this rye so corroded the empire that they even signed a peace treaty with Russia for a bribe. By the way, the Ottoman Empire decomposed because they sold everything.

I believe that our corruption has reached such colossal sizes that directly threatens the country's national security. But it’s good that the Minister of the Interior and the prosecutor in the Duma talked about this today (although many are annoying that there are a lot of talks). In Russia, it is always the case in Russia: the quantity should go to quality when some last straw will drop somewhere, then it will go like this. ”

11.11.2006 / Konstantin Smirnov, Marina Sokolovskaya, Alexander Sargin Material published in the newspaper No. 210 dated November 16, 2006.