The brochure contains investigations, analytics, and an account of the centre activities.

Press Release, 17.09.2019

Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre party launched a report on its work in 2018. The brochure presents investigations, examinations and analytics prepared by the Centre.

In 2018, the work of Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre was dedicated to competition and corruption. Lack of competition, either political or economic, gives rise to corruption and inefficiency of the governing at all levels. The amount of cartels identified by the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre and proven by the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service reached 1 billion roubles. Often officials, their relatives and friends participate in cartels.

Political corruption is no less harmful. In 2018, the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre showed how Sergei Sobyanin, candidate for Mayor of Moscow, used administrative resource to take up the post of Mayor again. If there is no competition, officials like Olga Glatsky come to power with her slogan for children “The state does not owe you anything”. The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre conducted a large investigation into the business and fraud of the Glatsky family and proved to Federal Anti-Monopoly Service the conspiracy of business partners of the Glatskies.

The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre pays special attention to expert work. In 2018, the Yabloko party, at the initiative of the Centre, became an accredited anti-corruption expert of the Ministry of Justice of Russia. The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre also prepared an anti-corruption programme for Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko’s Presidential candidate of Russia, “A Matter of Principle.” This is the only presidential anti-corruption program in modern Russian history.

“As in previous years, in 2018, Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre professionally, convincingly and persistently revealed the extent of corruption as the main vice of the current government. As a result, it was in 2018 that the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre reached a new level, having received accreditation as an anti-corruption expert of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. This is evidence of high professionalism and authority. We already see that in 2019, new investigations will help prevent corruption crimes and save people’s money,” Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova commented on the Centre’s report.

You can read the brochure “Practice of Investigations of the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko Party in 2018” here (in Russian).