Of all federal districts, residents of North-West District spoke of the highest corruption. The inscription reads: "To Take or Not to Take?"
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Corruption Resides in Cities
The extent of corruption in Russia was high, said the better part of respondents polled by All-Russia’s Center for Public Opinion Studies.
Some 44 percent of respondents said the extent of corruption in Russia was high, 30 percent said it was very high and no more than 1 percent thought it rather low. “The bigger the city, the more negative the evaluation is,” explained Valery Fedorov, who heads All-Russia’s Center for Public Opinion Studies.
Indeed, some 71 percent of respondents polled in Moscow and St. Petersburg said the corruption was high and very high in their cities. But the trend is apparently quite different in villages, where no more than 33 percent spoke of high corruption, while 27 percent thought it medium, 14 percent found it low and 11 percent didn’t see any corruption at all.
When it comes to Russia’s most corrupt institutions, the respondents named traffic police (33 percent) and police (26 percent). Local authorities appeared corrupt to 28 percent, 15 percent spotted corrupt practices in the government and federal authorities, and judicial system was called corrupt by 15 percent as well. The lowest corruption was in the show business (6 percent), Armed Forces (5 percent), trade (4 percent), parliament (3 percent), parties (3 percent) and mass media (3 percent).
Of all federal districts, residents of North-West District spoke of the highest corruption (81 percent of respondents called it high and very high), and the corruption was the lowest in interpretation of the Far East residents (66 percent found it high and very high).
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All the Article in Russian as of Sep. 16, 2008
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