Anti-corruption fight in Kazakhstan is not an easy ride

Kazakhstan is struggling to find a way to effectively fight corruption. Transparency International placed the country onto the 140th place out of 177 countries examined in its Corruption Perception Index 2013.

Nur Otan, the ruling party of Kazakhstan, has put forward a program of fighting corruption that envisions complete eradication of corruption in Kazakhstan within 10 years starting 2015. However, a group of experts together with an Almaty-based research NGO Insitute of Political Solutions came to the conclusion that the program needed a thought-through and more concrete approach to the problem.

Chair of the Board at Transparency International Kazakhstan Natalia Malyarchuk agreed that the anti-corruption project draft contained timely aspects. Nevertheless, she said that "the proposed text looks like a set of instructions to all and at the same time no one, which is not supported by intermediate goals and desired outcomes."

"The content of the document seems unstructured; one can see an attempt to rely on a kind of "public opinion" and so include in the text all the points of criticism that appear in the media. This is harmful to the document and jeopardizes its execution. This happened due to inaccurate and incomplete analysis of the core problems that exist in the anti-corruption sphere in Kazakhstan," Malyarchuk said.

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