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Russia ranked 154th out of 180 countries on the 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index with a score of 22 out of 100. Transparency International noted this is Russia's worst result since the current scoring system was introduced in 2012.
The average bribe in Russia rose from 9,000 rubles in 2008 to 236,000 rubles in 2011, making it 26 times larger in just three years. The Russian Interior Ministry's Department for Combating Economic Crimes recorded these figures, and the rate of increase far outpaced inflation over the same period.
Russia's modern anti-corruption effort began on the 4th of April 1992, when President Boris Yeltsin issued a decree prohibiting officials from engaging in business and requiring them to disclose income and property. The first package of anti-corruption laws followed in 2008 after Russia ratified the UN Convention Against Corruption.
The Anti-Corruption Foundation is a nonprofit organization established in Moscow in 2011 by Alexei Navalny to investigate and expose corruption among high-ranking Russian officials. In 2019, a Russian court recognized it as a foreign agent, and a 2021 trial sought to designate it an extremist organization and shut it down.
The 2017 documentary film "He Is Not Dimon to You" reached approximately 1.5 million views on its first day and 7 million views within one week. By May 2019 the total had reached 30 million views, surpassing the earlier Navalny film titled "Chaika."
Kremlin chief of staff Sergei Ivanov identified healthcare, education, housing, and communal services as the most corrupt sectors at the household level. Independent experts from RBC magazine placed law-enforcement agencies at the top, followed by healthcare, education, housing, and communal services. At the government level, the leading areas are government contracts, issuance of permits, law enforcement, land distribution, and construction.