In society Corruption - 20. With hope ... June 4, 2009 George Satarov The previous article ended with the thought that as corruption forms an extensive structure, a similar structure should form anti -corruption measures.

In society Beat or yield? June 4, 2009 Alexey Makarkin The social conflict in Pikalevo caused me a strange, at first glance, association. The French president Poincare in memoirs about the First World War told the story about how parliamentarians came to him, who decided to share fears about the presence of a large number of spare parts near Paris, in which anti -war sentiments can develop. In Russia of the same time, there was no one who would inform Nicholas II about a similar problem.

The international organization Transparency International published on June 3 the report “Global Corruption Barometer 2009” based on surveys of more than 70 thousand people in 69 countries. In Russia, 1,500 people were surveyed in November last year.

In the opposition The queue lined up for a single picket June 4, 2009 Oleg Kozyrev Today, at the building of the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow, where hearings are held in the framework of the process over Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev, the Solidarity movement organized a series of single pickets.

Crisis phenomena are already visible in this survey. First of all, this is due, it seems to me, to the fact that people began to talk more accurately about the fact that they gave bribes. Because the increase that was shown there shows that, in part, people began to look more carefully: before, when there was a lot of money, any payment - a thousand rubles in order to get a passport faster - seemed normal.

On June 4, the next annual St. Petersburg Economic Forum opens in the Northern capital. However, the usual police-festive feeling for this event, when the streets are full of greetings to distinguished guests and the gray uniforms of cops rounded up from all over the area, is not present this year. The real economic forum is taking place 250 kilometers from St.