Elizabeth Aleksandrov-Zorin: "To overtake somalia"

"Corruption in Russia is talking about something disgusting, but inevitable. The most loud investigations are invariably accompanied by the phrase: so, that, all this is known. Any discussions cause tired apathy: what can we change," the writer in the blog on the website of the Radio "Freedom" .

"But corruption not only robs us - corruption kills, and this is not a journalistic exaggeration. Rosstat’s statistics on the main causes of mortality of such a point, of course, will not be found. It is difficult to calculate the number of victims, because corruption also kills both directly and indirectly."

"On the roads of Russia, more than twenty thousand people die a year (this is the population of a small city, the whole city of the dead every year). They crashed on a bad road, which is repaired according to the documents every year, but in reality, they were killed by corruption. They were shot down by a drunken driver who was bought before from the police? Or a high -ranking official who gets away with a girl who was given the right of a rich right. "Sponsor"?

"Several thousand people per year die when crossing the railway. How many of them are no longer alive only because in the plotted local budget there were no funds for the arrangement of the transition, bridge or fencing? Last year, 13 thousand people were killed by pre -reflective murders (according to the UN, in this we are not only Europe, but almost all of Asia) and will die further, while the police are inactive, and the police are indistinguishable, and the police are indistinguishable. In total, it has its own price, including the murder. "

"More than 60 thousand people take heart attacks every year - how many lives could be saved if it were not for closed hospitals (for 20 years minus 6900 hospitals throughout the country)? About 300 thousand die from oncology. According to doctors, more than half could be saved - with proper treatment, with medical equipment and drugs, with timely diagnosis (there is not time to make such a diagnosis in Russia during the time autopsy) ".

"Feast of Jam" cost the capital of 160 million rubles, very timely expenses against the backdrop of poverty and crisis. For the Moscow project "My Street" in two years, 54 billion rubles were spent. 54 billion for tiles, trees, grass and flowers (grass and flowers are an inexhaustible source for officials, you can plant at least every day). But two years ago, in order to reduce expenses, the authorities closed 28 medical institutions in the capital, and such specialties as a urologist, gynecologist, proctologist and dermatologist were proposed to be considered "excessive".

"Of course, Russia has no special corruption path. All corruption schemes are corruption in all parts of the world. The richest woman in Africa is the daughter of the President of Angola (and, by the way, as a citizen of Russia), who made a fortune on the extraction of diamonds, oil and the management of state telecommunications. Angola not only among the fastest growing economies of the world, but also ahead of the planet of the whole Children's mortality: 150 thousand children die from hunger, dehydration and lack of medical care. ”

"In Russia, where the corrupt officials rule the country, holding all branches of power in their hands, and are not afraid of either revelations or punishments, corruption - not bending in the field and not even a disease of society. This is a principle by which a powerful vertical is thoughtfully built, this is a rod of a system, thanks to which it exists and is quite stable. But it is like a house built by the roof down, and the foundation was strongly strong. Assembled, you can’t live in it. ”

"In the ranking of the Corruption Perception Index Russia in 119th place in the worthy company of Azerbaijan, Gaiana and Sierra Leone. Ahead, even on dozens of lines, even Honduras, Burkina-Faso and Ethiopia. This rating is not just a hit parade of countries, but corruption is not only boring, filling up a score The word is always adjacent to the failure of social institutions and economic devastation.

"This used to be the main goal of Russia to catch up and overtake the United States. Now I would not have slopped down to Somalia."