Paul Goble
Staunton, July 15 – Russia has a long history of a lack of success in fighting corruption, but now it has come up with a new idea: Aleksandr Rechitsky, head of the interior ministry office in Rostov, says his institution will fully compensate police there for the amount of bribes they turn down.
If a Rostov policeman is offered a bribe of 1000 rubles, the interior ministry official says, the authorities will pay him 1,000 rubles out of state coffers for turning it down (tass.ru/obschestvo/24521283 and themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/15/rostov-police-to-be-reimbursed-for-refusing-bribes-in-anti-corruption-effort-a89828).
The state will be out the money but the country won’t suffer as it would if the bribes were accepted in the first place, officials in Rostov say; and they argue that this new approach to fighting corruption already shows signs of being successful, however outrageous it may seem to outsiders.
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