In her interview to mardik.am the Chair of Transparency International Anti-corruption Center (TIAC) Sona Ayvazyan noted marked deterioration in perceptions of corruption, with corruption in Armenia having increased. The government should have taken more serious steps in its fight against corruption, but it failed to do so due to lack of political will. Corruption in Armenia is of systemic nature and reaches the highest levels. They in the top cannot and are reluctant to fight against corruption. That is why no positive changes take place.

The anti-corruption efforts will be more effective if the members of parliament and government are not engaged in entrepreneurial activities, and not only low-level (efforts are made in that respect) but also high-level illegalities and corruption are punished. Though violation of law is much spoken of in relation to high-ranking officials, none of them has been punished so far. One cannot believe the effectiveness of combating corruption if such measures are not taken. It will be impossible to fight widespread corruption in low levels unless the vice is punished in the top, since those in the low levels eventually give their share of money to the top ones, in any case according to public perception.

TIAC cooperates with state institutions and has professional input in some fields. It has a contribution in developing terms of reference of the national anti-corruption strategy, as well as was engaged in discussions of anti-corruption strategy monitoring commission but it was of formal nature and essentially nothing has been changed. In this regard, the cooperation is not effective. There is formal cooperation with non-governmental organizations, which are in most part "pocket" NGOs who are devoid of sound criticism. It is simply done as illusion of cooperation with NGOs.