MPs founded a commission yesterday that will provide support for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's anticorruption program.
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Duma Has New Corruption Commission
The State Duma has a new commission, founded by MPs as part of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s anticorruption program. The new commission was the subject of considerable attention on television. The opposition doubts that there will be a real campaign against corruption, noting that all previous Dumas also set up such commissions, without reducing the level of corruption in the government. The president signed the decree to create a national anticorruption plan on Monday.
The new commission has members of all Duma factions sitting on it in numbers proportional to their representation in the parliament. There are eight members from United Russia, two from the Communists, one from the LDPR and one from Just Russia. The commission will be chaired by Alexey Volkov, former head of the Interior Department (police – Russian abbreviation UVD) of Kursk and Amur Regions. The deputy chairman of the commission will be former assistant prosecutor general Vladimir Kolesnikov. The purpose of the commission is to “study legislation and identify clauses in it that encourage the emergence or expansion of corruption and preparation of proposals for the improvement of legislation in the area of counteracting corruption.” The commission will also be authorized to examine draft laws before their first readings.
Although there have been anticorruption commissions in all previous Dumas, only in the last one did the commission examine legislation. That commission, headed by FSB Col. Mikhail Grishankov, who is now first deputy chairman of the Security Committee, examined 11 bills in the commission’s four years of existence. The members of the current commission have been given a detail instruction book on analyzing legislation. However, as one of the authors of that booklet noted, the real cause of corruption is “an unsupervised official.”
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All the Article in Russian as of May 22, 2008
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