Russia fails to implement CoE anti-corruption recommendations.

Despite President Medvedev's widely announced anti-corruption programme, Russia has followed less than half of the Council of Europe's recommendations it agreed to in 2008, according to a recent report submitted to the Council by the Russian Prosecutor’s Office.
 
The report sums up the country’s efforts to fulfil European specialist's anti-corruption recommendations worked out especially for Russia in December 2008.
 
According to the report, only twelve recommendations out of the twenty-six have been completely implemented.
 
Whilst Russia has elaborated a strategy for tackling corruption, six out of the twenty recommendations have been either completely ignored, and eight only partially addressed or fulfilled only partially. Russia has not yet established courts that would allow citizens to appeal against the decisions of state organisations. Neither has the law prohibiting officials to take gifts been adopted, nor has the list of people immune to criminal prosecution been revised.
 
Furthermore, a major anti-corruption law submitted to the State Duma back in 2000 is still under review, as parliamentarians and others in government resist the law. The Council will analyse and assess the Prosecutor's report by the autumn.
 
Council of Europe website:
http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/greco/default_en.asp