Коррупция в России – неизлечимая болезнь или нет?

The Corruption in Russia - is a curable illness or no?

Змазнев Егор

Школа №263, 11 класс

Научный руководитель: Аниканова Татьяна Александровна

The theme of my research is corruption in Russia. The main problem of my work is to find the answer to the question: “Is it possible to put the end to the corruption in Russia?”

The aim of this research is to show the main problems of Russian politics in reference to corruption in different branches.

What is the meaning of the word “corruption”?

The term corruption covers a broad range of human actions. To understand its influence on economy or a political system, it is necessary to reveal the term by identifying specific types of activities or transactions that might be connected with it. The most common definition is the abuse of government officials’ power for their private gain. Corruption can occur in different scales. There is a type of corruption that occurs as small favours between a small number of people (petty corruption), a type of corruption that affects the government on a large scale (grand corruption), and a type of corruption that is so prevalent that it is a part of everyday structure of society, including corruption as one of the symptoms of organized crime (systemic corruption).

The corruption in Russia is a significant problem that impacts the lives of Russian people. Russia is on the 43rd place in the Corruption Perceptions Index published by Transparency International (tied with such countries as Comoros, Guyana, Honduras, Iran, and Kazakhstan).

But why is the corruption in Russia the most significant problem nowadays?

There are different factors that have influenced consolidation of the corruption in Russia:

The Historical factor

The Economic situation

The Support of the government

So is the eradicating of the corruption in Russia possible at all?

To my mind, according to the documents I’ve mentioned earlier, it isn’t possible with a present government, because they have a vested interest in it. How is it possible to fight corruption if the entire system is based on it? Fake anti-corruption efforts serve only as propaganda.

The analysis of the corruption in Russia is an integral part of my research which also includes the following main objectives:

to find and show the main problems that Russian corruption causes

to make a social survey about the possibility of eradicating the corruption in Russia

to find the main reasons of the corruption power in modern Russia

So, during researching of the work I have understood that the Russian corruption was forming during all the Russian history and now it causes a lot of problems for modern Russia. As a result of my work, I can say, that the corruption and bribery are two main problems that mostly influence economic, social and political development of our country. To my mind, it is possible to put an end to the Russian corruption but to achieve this aim we need to reform our government.

Nowadays it is extremely important to understand the main problems of our country. This will help us to analyze, show and follow the right path of Russian’s economical and social development.