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How did the corrupt image of some officials influence the results of the parliamentary elections?
Kirill Kabanov, the chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Committee
Why is the ruling party called “the party of thieves and cheats” in society?
Because power is associated in people’s minds with cheating and corruption.
Society doesn’t understand that it is it's own client.
People complain quietly in their kitchens, on the internet.
Even when many people hold demonstrations, they stand against the results of voting and so on.
However, unfair elections are a private case of corruption.
The bureaucracy, which tries to hold on to power and considers corruption to be a business,
establishes certain conditions, which irritate society and destroy the state structure.
Of course, this influences the results of the elections.
Even without full legal appraisal we can see that the materials prove political corruption.
A great many people are involved in corruption.
Do you think the corruption issue will be used during the presidential elections?
I think this issue was used by Dmitry Anatoljevich,
but Vladimir Vladimirovich is hardly likely to use this trend,
because his environment is responsible for the corrupt situation in Russia.
Does corruption in the North Caucasus have any special features?
Of course. Corruption in the North Caucasus has two directions.
The first is clan allegiance.
But that is a tradition.
The second is connected with extremist activity.
We prepared a report for the president on July 5th,
which says that exaggeration of extremist relations by law-enforcement agencies
and regional elites is artificial in most cases.
They need it to get extra financing.
The so called “anti-government” attitude is not anti-government in fact,
it is against the officials who plunder budgets and violate the principles of social justice.
We say that Russia has long history of corruption…
Any country has long history of corruption, but some countries got rid of it…
Yes, but Georgia has been a part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union for a long time.
However, the situation is better there.
What’s the reason?
In Georgia low-level corruption was tidied up:
the police system was reformed by 90% and it became transparent,
because a control system over it was established.
I think political corruption still exists in Georgia.
However, political competition is developed.
A citizen has a choice: to join the opposition
or to understand that the current power has some advantages.
The Georgian authorities try to please their citizens, so that they don't take to the streets.