All this leads to serious crisis phenomena in economy and social life. An appropriate legislative basis and public administration structures have not been developed yet. We lack well-trained personnel as well as experience, technical means and effective system of promoting and upholding the principles of integrity and civility. All these factors created conditions conducive to the spread of corruption and organized crime. I should, however, point out that corruption itself is not an outgrowth of an independent Ukrainian state.
Corruption is deeply rooted in our totalitarian past.
At the same time, it is necessary to emphasize that the level of corruption in Ukraine is far from what some media and analytical research centers try to make the international community believe. I would like to state that due to anti-corruption measures undertaken in the past few years, we managed to lower the level of danger posed by corruption and localized adverse trends of its development. The congruity in the principles of state policy in this area, integrity in approaches and requirements, as well as coordination of activities at all levels of power and law enforcement institutions, both vertically and horizontally, have been ensured. The documents outline the conceptual principles of this policy, and strategy and tactics of our activities in this sphere. A system of monthly monitoring and reporting as regards their implementation has been hammered out and put to work.