Main Directions and Experience in Implementing State Policy of Anti-Corruption Education in the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus and Germany (Comparative Legal Aspect)

Abstract

This article reviewed the experience of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus and Germany in formulating and implementing State anti-corruption education policies. The Russian Federation does not have any positive changes in terms of its world ranking on prevention and combating of corruption, the Corruption Perception Index, so the Republic of Belarus, a country of the post-Soviet area, was selected for a comparative legal study, as well as Germany, due to its consistently high ranking and similarity of its legal system with Russia. A study of national anti-corruption legislation and education in general and anti-corruption education in particular showed that it is not only in Russia that there is no systematic approach to anti-corruption education as a preventive measure against corruption offences. Although anti-corruption education has received considerable attention at the national level in each of the countries examined, the measures taken to promote it are ad hoc and not systematic. National legislation does not contain regulations governing education and there is no logical link between various actors involved in anti-corruption education. The results of the study revealed shortcomings of Russian legislation in the area of anti-corruption education and concluded that the achievements of the Republic of Belarus and Germany in combating corruption were most likely linked to other areas and measures to combat and prevent corruption but not to anti-corruption education. It has been shown that in order to increase the effectiveness of anti-corruption education measures, Russia needs to apply international acts regulating not only anti-corruption issues but also educational activities and build a system of social relations in this area with all actors involved in educational activities, on the basis of interconnectedness and interdependence.