Corruption has no conscience. When allowed to spread, its corrosive effects destroy trust and fuel injustice, regardless of geography or sector. To counter this scourge, Transparency International (TI) works around the world fostering greater transparency and accountability in government and business, and empowering people to demand their rights. TI's latest Annual Report provides compelling evidence of how the global anti-corruption movement is making concrete gains against corruption throughout its over 90 chapters worldwide.


Transparency International Anti-corruption Center (TIAC) marked its 10th anniversary with a General Meeting convened on July 23, 2010. The event brought together 15 members of the organization, its staff and proponents. The meeting was opened with welcome remarks, followed by presentation of the organization's biennial activity in the reporting period. Other items of the agenda included nomination for membership of the organization and voting for candidates, election of Board members and Chair, and discussion of the activities related to its 10th anniversary celebration and other issues.


Lena Nazaryan, Project Assistant of Transparency international Anti-corruption Center, attended Transparency International Summer School on Integrity in Vilnius from July 5 to 9, 2010. The school brought together over 65 young professionals from Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and United States of America to address the subject of corruption and fighting it.


Released on June 29, 2010 by Freedom House, Nations in Transit 2010 studied democratic development in 29 countries from Central Europe to Eurasia. Armenia with a score of 5.39 is a semi-consolidated authoritarian regime. It fails to meet even the minimum standards of electoral democracy and efforts to combat widespread corruption are usually politically motivated.