Abstract
This chapter examines Article 291, and its five parts, of the Russian Federation Criminal Code for Giving Bribes, including statistics on corruption. According to the Department of Justice, 1625 people were convicted (charged with Article 290 of the Criminal Code) for accepting bribes in 2014. While some experts believe that most convicted are high-ranking officials, statistics of the Department of Justice show that the majority of individuals charged under Article 290 of the Criminal Code in 2014 were charged with low-level bribes. Russian corruption significantly strikes those institutions which, by their origin, are charged with combating corruption: prosecutors, courts, police, and customs authorities. One should consider the systemic nature of corruption in law enforcement agencies because corruption appears where group, a network, or clan of people lost moral orientation, overestimating their own personality, their role, and place in life. One of the chief principles of systemic corruption in Russia is that “strangers do not belong here.”
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