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Debate "Victorious infantry: luck of the opposition or manipulation of the authorities?"
Pehting (neol.) - public exposure of a high-ranking official of corruption, possession of undeclared property, or violation of other norms and restrictions established for civil servants. The word is derived from the surname of ex-member of the State Duma Vladimir Pekhtin, who was forced to part with the deputy "crust" after the publication by Alexei Navalny of evidence that he had expensive real estate in the United States. There is every reason to expect that he will not be the only one to lose his seat as a result of pehting: social activists have collected and published new portions of compromising information on United Russia party Irina Yarovaya, children's ombudsman Pavel Astakhov and many others, and Putin, the government and the State Duma are tightening the screws, declaring tough measures in against corrupt officials.
But is it as good as it seems at first glance? Will infantry, if not win, then at least minimize corruption? Or, in conditions when corruption is not a marginal area of economic and social life, but the essence of the country's political system, any fight against it only leads to the strengthening of "strong" corruption schemes and figures by weeding out the "weak" ones?
On March 26, Elena Panfilova, director of the anti-corruption research center of Transparency International Russia, and Sergey Lukashevsky, director of the Sakharov Center, will argue about this. Moderator - Mikhail Kaluzhsky, journalist, curator of the theater program of the Sakharov Center.
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Start at 19:30. Free admission.