Sergei Naryshkin, chief of the Kremlin staff
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President to Chair Counter Corruption Council
A new body, a Counter Corruption Council, is being established in Russia. It will be chaired by the country’s president, RIA Novosti reported with reference to chief of the Kremlin staff Sergei Naryshkin.
“A Counter-Corruption Council is being established; it will be headed by president,” Naryshkin announced by results of the meeting that President Dmitry Medvedev held to focus on the battle against the corrupt practices in the country. Another decision of bureaucrats is to set up an interdepartmental group to oppose corruption. “I was committed to head it,” Naryshkin said.
The Prosecutor General Office will coordinate all law enforcement activities related to the counter-corruption effort of Russia’s authorities.
“Corruption isn’t the phenomenon of Russia, corruption exists everywhere,” Naryshkin said, adding that “the extent and the depth of the problem is different.”
“The determination of president’s readiness to fight corruption inspires optimism,” Naryshkin pointed out.
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