Shamil Gafarov: “Corruprtion control is supposed to be brought to the brand new standard”

Corruption damage in Russian Federation makes up about 40 billion rubles per year, said Shamil Gafarov, the Head of RT Cabinet Office, speaking at the Seminar on corruption control policy.

The Seminar with the participation of heads of corruption control committes of ministries, departments and municipal districts took place at the Academy of State and Municipal Administration under the President of Tatarstan, Kazan.

Shamil Gafarov talked about the corruption control measures in Russia and in Tatatrstan.

He noted that at present the control of corruption is of primary importance in Russia. According to the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM), today corruption constitutes more justifiable threat, than terrorism.

Shamil Gafarov also talked about the researches of international organisations and institutes. According to researches, our country is at 147th place (among 180 countries surveyed) after Uganda and Nigeria. “Today corruprtion control is supposed to be brought to the brand new standard”, he said, referring to the National Corruption Control Project (July 31, 2008) signed by the President Dmitry Medvedev.

The Republic of Tatarstan is one of the first regions where regular corruption control measures have been taken: the approval of the Strategy of Corruption Control Policy of the Republic of Tatarstan, the creation of the Department of Corruption Control under the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, the approval of the rebublican law “On the corruption control in the Republic of Tatarstan”, the approval of the Corruption Control Policy Programme in the Republic of Tatarstan for 2008/2011 (September, 2008).

“We have necessary legislative base in the republic to work on this problem”, Shamil Gafarov said.