Georgia has the lowest corruption level of all former Soviet republics
- only 3% of respondents give bribes, the Global Corruption Barometer
said in Berlin on Thursday, News Georgia reports.
The Center of Anti-corruption Studies and the Transparency
International questioned 91 000 people in 86 subjects of the country.
The polling was held from June to September 2010.
26% of Russian citizens admitted in 2010 that they gave one or more
bribes, compared with 31% in 2009.
Russia is considered a country with medium corruption, as well as
Armenia and Belarus which have 22% and 27% correspondingly.
34% of respondents in Ukraine gave bribes, 37% in Moldavia, 47% in Azerbaijan.
The average global figures have risen recently, one out of four people
knows about the bribery problem. But there are positive tendencies in
the research as well, 7 out of 10 people would inform about the facts
of bribery.
Police officers are the most bribed. 8 out of 10 people believe that
political parties are the most corrupt. The most corrupt institution
in the world is considered the administrative structures and the
parliament, in Russia it is the police and educational institutions.
