☭o54| Cracking down on corruption
Moscow's new Mayor who vowed to root out corruption has broken up a meeting with City Council officials after criticizing the quality of their reports.
Sergei Sobyanin, who took over as Mayor of the Russian capital city a week ago, dealt severely with the heads of departments over the reports they delivered at a meeting on Wednesday.
He cut short the session by asking them to return with thorough reports on meals served to Moscow school students, state-run Ria Novosti news agency reported quoting a statement by City Hall.
Presiding over the first meeting of the 35-member Duma after he took over as Moscow Mayor on last Thursday, Sobyanin insisted that every chief executive of the city administration should be held personally responsible for maintaining transparency regarding corruption in his institution.
He vowed to root out corruption in Moscow "in close cooperation with the law enforcement agencies."
A city law on curbing corruption was adopted by the Duma, which envisages formation of public and non-commercial organizations to support the City Council's fight against corruption. The Council for Corruption Control under the Moscow Mayor will coordinate the anti-corruption policy.
Sobyanin was sworn in as the 76th Mayor of Moscow for a five-year term after Duma overwhelmingly approved President Dmitry Medvedev's nominee.
Sobyanin's predecessor Yury Luzhkov was fired by the Russian President on September 28 having lost confidence in him.
In its annual report published on Tuesday, Transparency International ranked Russia to a lower 154th position on the organization's Corruption Perceptions Index list of 178 nations.
It noted that corruption is rampant in Russia's public institutions, including in hospitals, schools, utilities, and the traffic police.
Dimitri sits silently in his bedroom's window seat while reading the paper. It's good to see that he has a new mayor, he feels a little bad that he couldn't congratulate the guy on getting such a job. But upon reading about how serious this guy is about fixing up what has been wrong with his city for so long, he can only feel...what's the word, "grateful" for what he's doing and what he has in store for the capital and people of Moscow. Is this the kind of change Dimitri has been aiming for? A serious and physical change, not only within himself but within his city?
Sergei Sobyanin, who took over as Mayor of the Russian capital city a week ago, dealt severely with the heads of departments over the reports they delivered at a meeting on Wednesday.
He cut short the session by asking them to return with thorough reports on meals served to Moscow school students, state-run Ria Novosti news agency reported quoting a statement by City Hall.
Presiding over the first meeting of the 35-member Duma after he took over as Moscow Mayor on last Thursday, Sobyanin insisted that every chief executive of the city administration should be held personally responsible for maintaining transparency regarding corruption in his institution.
He vowed to root out corruption in Moscow "in close cooperation with the law enforcement agencies."
A city law on curbing corruption was adopted by the Duma, which envisages formation of public and non-commercial organizations to support the City Council's fight against corruption. The Council for Corruption Control under the Moscow Mayor will coordinate the anti-corruption policy.
Sobyanin was sworn in as the 76th Mayor of Moscow for a five-year term after Duma overwhelmingly approved President Dmitry Medvedev's nominee.
Sobyanin's predecessor Yury Luzhkov was fired by the Russian President on September 28 having lost confidence in him.
In its annual report published on Tuesday, Transparency International ranked Russia to a lower 154th position on the organization's Corruption Perceptions Index list of 178 nations.
It noted that corruption is rampant in Russia's public institutions, including in hospitals, schools, utilities, and the traffic police.
Dimitri sits silently in his bedroom's window seat while reading the paper. It's good to see that he has a new mayor, he feels a little bad that he couldn't congratulate the guy on getting such a job. But upon reading about how serious this guy is about fixing up what has been wrong with his city for so long, he can only feel...what's the word, "grateful" for what he's doing and what he has in store for the capital and people of Moscow. Is this the kind of change Dimitri has been aiming for? A serious and physical change, not only within himself but within his city?