Russia has adopted a National Anti-Corruption Plan

According to the National Plan, the main areas of the state's anti-corruption activities for the next 3 years will be:

Improvement of the system of restrictions, prohibitions and requirements established to counter corruption;
Formation of uniform approaches to preventing and resolving conflicts of interest;
improvement of measures to counter corruption in the sphere of public procurement;
Improvement of mechanisms for controlling expenditures and the return to the State of property acquired on unconfirmed income;
conducting awareness-raising, educational and other activities aimed at preventing corruption violations;
improvement of measures to counter corruption in the business sector;
eliminating existing gaps in the normative legal regulation of anti-corruption activities;
enhancing the effectiveness of international cooperation in the field of anti-corruption.

For each of these areas, the National Plan envisages a number of activities to be carried out in 2018-2020.

Thus, within the framework of the first area, it is planned, among other things:

Extending anti-corruption restrictions, prohibitions and obligations to employees of organizations established to perform tasks assigned to state bodies of constituent entities and local self-government bodies, and to employees of subsidiaries and affiliates of state corporations (companies), public-law companies (currently, anti-corruption standards are already established for employees of extra-budgetary funds, organizations established on the basis of laws of the Russian Federation, and organizations established to perform tasks assigned to federal
development of criteria for applying certain liability measures for violation of anti-corruption standards (preparation of the relevant methodological recommendations was also envisaged in the previous National Anti-Corruption Plan for 2016-2017, but they were never issued);
development of a methodology for assessing anti-corruption plans adopted by federal state bodies and the effectiveness of their implementation.

In the context of conflict of interest regulation, among other things, it is planned to:

Developing proposals to amend the questionnaire to be filled out when entering the civil service, providing for the need to provide information on spouses of brothers and sisters, as well as on brothers and sisters of spouses of candidates to fill a position (currently, the questionnaire provides information, including place of work, only in respect of close relatives (father, mother, brothers, sisters and children) and former and current spouses);
Establishing liability for failure to take measures to prevent and/or resolve conflicts of interest and other violations of anti-corruption legislation for members of the Federation Council and federal deputies;
preparation of a semi-annual review of the practice of application of legislation on conflict of interest regulation.

Measures aimed at improving anti-corruption in public procurement are also largely focused on taking measures to prevent conflicts of interest. In particular, it is planned to:

establish the obligation of procurement participants to submit a declaration on the absence of the fact of bringing to administrative responsibility under Article 19.28 - illegal remuneration on behalf of a legal entity (recall that in 2017 Russia established a ban on participation in procurement for organizations brought to responsibility under this article); the authority to maintain the Register of such legal entities is planned to be vested in the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation (which has already started maintaining the said Register in 2018 in pursuance of its departments and agencies).
establish a prohibition on engaging subcontractors from among legal entities controlled by the head of the customer, his deputy, a member of the procurement commission, the head of the customer's contract service, the contract manager, as well as their spouses, close relatives and in-laws to execute contracts;
to prepare methodological recommendations for identifying personal interest of state and municipal officials and employees, as well as for identifying and minimizing corruption risks in procurement.

In terms of improving control over expenditures, the following are envisaged:

transition of all persons submitting information on income, expenses, property and property obligations to the use of special software "BC certificates";
Consideration of the expediency of expanding the list of submitted information on income and expenses;
preparation of proposals on control over the expenditures of persons suspected or accused of committing corruption offenses (at present, the basis for initiating control over expenditures is the discrepancy between the declared expenses and the income of the official), as well as the possibility of subsequent conversion of their expenditures into the state income.

The awareness-raising, educational and other activities envisaged by the National Plan, aimed primarily at preventing corruption offenses, include, inter alia:

Development of model additional educational programs on anti-corruption;
inclusion of anti-corruption disciplines in the curricula of general, secondary vocational and higher vocational education organizations, approval and implementation of an anti-corruption education programme for students;
conducting a number of scientific interdisciplinary studies, for example, on improving the effectiveness of anti-corruption in business, as well as on the unification of statistical reporting forms on the results of anti-corruption measures in government agencies and organizations (it should be recalled that our experts have recently prepared a report on international experience in regulating the institution of whistleblowing, including for anti-corruption purposes);
Increasing the effectiveness of social advertising and other methods of influence that contribute to the formation of intolerance to corruption in society;
annual advanced training on anti-corruption topics for civil servants, employees of the Bank of Russia, and municipal employees (on a recommendatory basis).

As part of improving anti-corruption efforts in the business sector, the National Plan envisages, among other things:

Development of mechanisms and conditions for introducing anti-corruption standards in organizations;
preparation of proposals to encourage organizations to participate in anti-corruption efforts.

In order to monitor the implementation of the National Plan, the Presidium of the Presidential Council on Combating Corruption has been instructed to establish a special council.

The National Anti-Corruption Plan is a medium-term strategic document adopted in Russia every two years and contains a list of key measures to be implemented during this period. The first National Plan in our country was adopted in 2008.