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HEATMAP: Russia and Ukraine battle it out
for title of most corrupt country in Europe
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Russia recaptured the dubious title of “most corrupt country in Eastern Europe” after it slipped three places in this year’s Transparency International Corruption Perceptions index, falling from 135 place in 2017 to 138 last year out of a 180 countries surveyed.
Ukraine on the other hand has shed the most corrupt title it held in 2015 and improved its standing, rising from 130 place in 2017 to
120 now, buoying its supporters’ claims that progress is being made.
Looking at the actual corruption scores, which run from 1-100 with 100 standing for
no corruption at all, then the picture is less encouraging. Russia’s score fell one point from 29 to 28, whereas Ukraine’s score improved two points from 30 to 32.
Ukraine has been pressured into attacking corruption by its international donors, which have insisted on a new anticorruption system.
The new National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is the investigative part of a triumvirate that also includes the Special Anti- Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), which carries out prosecutions in parallel to the General Prosecutor’s Office, but is also