December 8, 2010 - 18:34 AMT
Armen Bosnakhyan: Armenian society treats corruption as normal phenomenon

Prosecutor of the Corruption and Organized Crime Department at the Office of RA Prosecutor General Armen Bosnakhyan said that state’s will and policy should play a decisive role in combating corruption.

The struggle against corruption should be carried out at all levels of authorities, Bosnakhyan said during Yerevan-Moscow-Tbilisi space bridge on Society against Corruption.

Besides, according to Bosnakhyan, representatives of small and medium business treat corruption as a normal phenomenon. “Disapproval of this problem should be displayed in assistance to law enforcers’ activity. Naturally, there is another problem – lack of trust towards law enforcers. However, in my opinion, it can be overcome as well,” he said.

Chairman of the Public Anti-Corruption Committee, member of the Russian State Duma, member of its Committee on Federation and Regional Policy Affairs, Anton Belyakov said that almost all former countries of the USSR have a common problem that hampers struggle against corruption – societies lack an ideology.

According to him, even if a struggle is carried out against corruption, it does not refer to “big fishes.”