Three recipes for fighting corruption

Elena Panfilova, head of the Russian branch of Transparency International: 1. Ensuring the principles of competition in all spheres of state and public life. Market competition, media, public, political and competition in ...

Elena Panfilova , head of the Russian branch of Transparency International:

1. Ensuring the principles of competition in all spheres of state and public life. Competition market, media, public, political and courtroom competition eliminate the emergence of systemic corruption.

2. Independence and non-selectivity of law enforcement. It is not so important here what articles of the law exist as a punishment for corruption: imprisonment, confiscation, a fine, cutting off a hand - anything can happen. But if the punishment is applied selectively, once every four years - for elections, then it does not make sense. Only the inevitability and non-selectivity of law enforcement are effective.

3. The main focus of the fight against corruption should be directed to prevention.

Gennady Gudkov , member of the Just Russia faction, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security:

1. Civil control: control of the opposition, media, public and state.

2. Information openness and transparency of authorities.

3. Control of income and expenses of citizens. As in the entire civilized world, where we enter: the G8, G20 - it has long been like this there. You can steal, but you can't spend. I always give an example: when I studied at the Academy of Foreign Intelligence in 1988-1989, one of the most serious problems with the agents who received money was how to legalize the proceeds from intelligence. Reaction to the discrepancy between income and expenses.

Georgy Satarov , President of the INDEM Foundation:

1. Real political competition.

2. Independent media.

3. Restoration of the separation of powers and federalism. These are the necessary conditions. Without these three conditions, everything else is useless. When there is no separation of powers, power turns into a single monolith, which, in the absence of political competition and influential independent media, works for itself, since there is no external control over power and bureaucracy. We need accountability of elected governors to the population, and not to the boss in Moscow. This is primarily the return of gubernatorial elections. And then technologies begin, but they do not give an effect if there are no basic conditions listed above.

Evgeny Chichvarkin

1. The most basic is the holding of real elections, in which the country's leadership will be re-elected. The country is full of talent. There are a lot of honest people, and among those who make decisions now, there are very few of them. We definitely need a competent power bloc, we need to defend the borders, we need a strong, strong and professional army. But the main thing is an independent judiciary.

2. The people who are re-elected must enact enforceable laws, especially as far as taxes are concerned.

3. Do not prosecute a person who gives a bribe. Punish only those who take. So that you can give a bribe and immediately declare it without fear of persecution. Because the one who gives is most often forced to do so.