<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9b73644d-f9aa-425d-9576-d60e9241437e/89288C8A-231B-4BF8-B87B-E1819C42C2B5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/15/europe/EU-Russia-Corruption-Fight.php" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/15/europe/EU-Russia-Corruption-Fight.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.iht.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/15/europe/EU-Russia-Corruption-Fight.php"><P><STRONG><A href="#" title="Click to view map" id="articleLocation">MOSCOW</A>:</STRONG> Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev said Sunday that he will publicly declare his income and encouraged other officials to fight corruption by disclosing relatives' incomes and assets.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/15/europe/EU-Russia-Corruption-Fight.php"><P>Medvedev, a former lawyer and law professor, has repeatedly called for stronger rule of law in Russia and pledged to combat rampant corruption. But there have been few signs of progress since he took over the presidency last May from Vladimir Putin, who shifted into the prime minister's chair.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/15/europe/EU-Russia-Corruption-Fight.php"><P>Anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International has ranked Russia near Bangladesh, Kenya and Syria on a global corruption index. A Russian prosecutor said last summer that government officials' income from corruption amounts to the equivalent of about one-third of the national budget.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/15/europe/EU-Russia-Corruption-Fight.php">Traffic police solicit bribes by citing drivers for fabricated offenses, parents slip extra rubles to teachers in exchange for better grades and hospital patients grease the palms of doctors for better care.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/89288C8A-231B-4BF8-B87B-E1819C42C2B5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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