Paul Goble
Staunton, July 29 – Earlier this month, the interior ministry office in Rostov Oblast announced that it would pay officials the amount involved in every bribe they turned out. But the program isn’t working, and now close observers on the scene are dismissing it as a public relations stunt that was only meant to highlight how much corruption there is in that region.
The program was launched with a great deal of media fanfare and immediately attracted media outlets across Russia (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/07/russian-region-fights-corruption-by.html). But it quickly became obvious that it was more a stunt than a considered program and lacked both the funding and procedures that would have allowed it to work.
As a result, close observers in the region and experts elsewhere say it will soon pass into oblivion, yet another policy announcement in Putin’s Russia that in fact goes no further than the press release and then is consigned to the files or even the wastebasket (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/413407).
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