Radio Liberty addressed Transparency International global anticorruption civil society organization’s subsequent global research product, the launch of Corruption Perceptions Index 2014. “A score of less than 50 points means that corruption has a serious negative impact on a country’s development,” Varuzhan Hoktanian, the executive director of Transparency International’s Armenian branch, said as he presented the survey’s findings. The Armenian authorities still lack “the political will” to tackle the problem in earnest. He also pointed to their continuing close ties with business and a handful of government-linked “oligarchs” in particular. “Big oligarchic factions are dictating state policies,” claimed Hoktanian. “Laws and regulations are enacted and implemented in their favor.”

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