(Source: https://kronnews.ru)

Research: Russian entrepreneurs notice a decline in corruption.

Russian entrepreneurs note that there is less corruption in business: in two years, the number of businessmen who complained on constant corruption fell by 7% (from 17% in 2016 to 10% in 2018), Kommersant magazine reports referring to a survey conducted by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) within the framework of the Business Corruption Barometer Project.

The number of entrepreneurs who rarely dealt with corruption in their activities increased from 21% to 28%. At the same time, the size of bribes is dropping: if in 2016 about 3.7% of respondents reported illegal payments of more than 1 million rubles, now they make 1.4%. Moreover, the number of reports of bribes dropped from 25 to 150 thousand rubles - from 18% to 14%. 

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At the same time, the number of entrepreneurs talking about bribes from 3 to 25 thousand rubles (from 22% to 35%) and about unofficial payments to three thousand rubles (from 9.3% to 19%) is growing.

Besides, the number of entrepreneurs who have never faced corruption has fallen from 21% to 18%.

39% of respondents believe that the absence of corruption would not affect the annual scope of sales; a quarter of them said that business would become more successful. And every tenth entrepreneur believes that the absence of corruption would reduce the sales.

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