The head of an anti-corruption watchdog said on Dec. 9 that one in three Russian officials still accepts bribes, undermining top officials' claims of success in the fight against endemic corruption. "About 30 percent of officials … are corrupt," National Anti-Corruption Committee head Kirill Kabanov said in an interview with Russian News Service radio.
The Moscow Times: One in three Russian officials is ‘corrupt’
A Russian communist party supporter with inscription on his outerwear reading \"Corruption - Fatherland in danger!\" holds a scythe as he walks next to a veteran during a rally devoted to the Defenders of the Fatherland day holiday in Moscow, on February 23, 2013.
