Between July 24 and 28, 2015 Varuzhan Hoktanyan, Executive Director of Transparency international Anticorruption Center (TIAC) presented “National Integrity System (NIS) Assessment Armenia 2014” report in four Marzes of Armenia examining anti-corruption mechanisms and safeguards across 13 institutions (President, Legislature, Executive, Judiciary, Civil Service, Law Enforcement Agencies, Central Electoral Commission, Human Rights Defender, Chamber of Control, Media, Civil Society, Political Parties, and Business) in Armenia. The series of presentations was organized within the framework of advocacy stage of “National Integrity System Assessment in Armenia” project, implemented by TIAC, funded by European Commission and co-funded by Open Society Foundations - Armenia. During this stage TIAC presented the project in Civic Youth Centers - Gavar, Gyumri, Vanadzor and Armavir, founded by Journalists’ Club "Asparez" with the support of Open Society Foundations – Armenia. The meeting in Gyumri was covered by Radio Liberty, GALA, Aravot.

The assessment examines the legal framework of each pillar as well as the actual institutional practice, thereby highlighting discrepancies between the formal provisions and reality on the ground. According to Varuzhan Hoktanyan “there are laws in Armenia that are poorly enforced in practice. The dimensions measuring law and practice differ. It is often reflected by imitation when law is attempted to be formally but not actually enforced.

High level corruption in Armenia is due to weak economy, absence of middle class, lack of competition, strengthening of one-party dominance in politics, monopolization in economy, wide-spread impunity, rigged elections, low level legal awareness of public.