A press conference was held at 1:00 pm, on October 26, 2010, at Congress Hotel, where Varuzhan Hoktanyan, Executive Director of Transparency International Anti-corruption Center presented Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2010. The CPI, released annually since 1995, looks at public sector corruption based on expert assessments and opinion surveys. The 2010 CPI ranked 178 countries and draws on 13 different polls and surveys from 10 independent institutions.

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