The fight against corruption: indicative shooting

The last days have been celebrated by a series of large corruption scandals: the case of Oboronservis and the resignation of the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov, financial fraud in the construction of facilities to the APEC summit in Vladivostok and the arrest of the former deputy head of the Ministry of Regional Development Roman Panov. And, finally, giant embezzlement in the development of the GLONASS navigation system: the Ministry of Internal Affairs believe that the amount of theft exceeded 6 billion rubles. The fact that indicative anti -corruption processes can be carried out in the near future, a source in the government was said by Publicpost a few months ago. According to him, in this way it is planned to improve the investment image of Russia in the West.

Whether an unprecedented anti -corruption campaign is really deployed in Russia, or there is no systemic struggle, and the incident - symptomatic, but not interconnected events, Publicpost was told by experts.

Georgy Satarov, President of the Interma Foundation:

"Putin started a similar campaign during his first presidency, when he built governors. Then there was also" shooting at the headquarters ", there were quite frequent scandals with various kinds of deputies of governors, etc. So there is nothing special here, this is the next campaign to build the elite, Putin was unhappy with his point of view. She, on the other hand, wants to bring her under the stirrup.

Loud affairs and landings can still be, it depends on the reaction of the elite, but the problem is that the reaction can be unpredictable and unexpected: the elite may not want to go under the aspiration. "

Dmitry Peskov, presidential spokesman :

"Some allegations that the last loud corruption affairs are aimed at distracting the attention of the population are ridiculous and difficult to explain. President Putin sequentially emphasizes the priority of the topic of the fight against corruption. Putin did this in the previous presidential terms, did, as the head of the government, he declared the priority of the program with which he went to the elections of the Head of State, and does it now. There is no doubt that he would do it and what he would do and Further.

Sergey Aleksashenko, economist, head of the analytical group "Development Center":

"There is no common campaign. The authorities are not going to fight corruption, just its scale and the number of corruption facts in the country are so large that there is no living place - everything is torn one after another. Such a country can be fought either randomly or systematic. I still do not see a systemic struggle."

Kirill Kabanov, head of the National Anti -Corruption Committee:

"This whole story is multifaceted. After all, what is corruption in Russia? The first: this is the most profitable business. The second: this is part of the national idea for the bureaucracy. With regret, but we have to admit it. The third: corruption is interagency systemic relations. At a certain moment, everything has developed: the final understanding from the country's leadership is crossed and conflict with the leadership. They either block them, or lead to the opposite, this violates the work of the management system, including the manual, the corruption of the Business Contracuations already lead to conflicts in the elites, which also weakens the control system. Ivanov - the head of the presidential administration - PublicPost), who recently said in an interview that corruption is a threat to national security. There should be an adequate threat to the punishment - not the laws on monitoring the expenses of officials that the Duma will accept, but an adequate punishment. So I think that the statement of Ivanov about the confiscation of property will follow some steps. Sergey Borisovich Ivanov never just says anything. There will be a development, it is unlikely that something will work out here. "

Alexey Mukhin, CEO of the Center for Political Information:

“We are not talking about a demonstrative anti-corruption campaign, we are talking about the transfer of corruption into an actual plane: all the elections are completed, the situation is more or less stable, you can safely deal with corrupt officials. This is the supreme power and makes specific actions from Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin performs specific actions.

All anti -corruption processes are indicative. All of them have pedagogical significance, if not in the first, then secondly. There is nothing shameful in this. "