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Russian state officials might be subject to psychological tests on their corruption-resistance qualities, according to an initiative revealed by the country's Ministry of Labour and Social Protection on Wednesday.
"The analysis would reveal potential inclination of an official to corruption manifestations," Dmitry Basnak, chief of the ministry's Civil Service Department told Moscow's Izvestia daily.
The requirement of the mandatory tests could be included into the federal program of the civil service development for 2015-2018 by mid-June 2015, Basnak said, adding the results of the test would be 90-percent correct and the human resources' personnel must be trained to perform the profiling.
The ministry said the initiative envisages no crackdowns on the public servants. The test, if approved, will be conducted in the framework of regular professional re-evaluation that any Russian official goes through every several years.
Yuri Golik, a member of Russia's National Anti-corruption Council, a non-governmental organization, said the ministry's initiative was good, but hard to be implemented, citing shortage of qualified professionals.
"Hastily trained staff would never produce any credible results from such profiling, because even the professionals working with lie detectors admit that a well-prepared experienced person could misguide both the device and its operator," Golik told Xinhua.
Also on Wednesday, Irina Yarovaya, head of the Security and Anti-Corruption Committee of the Parliament's lower house, the State Duma, said fighting corruption has been "the government's serious objective and integral part of national security."
"This is why in the recent years the anti-corruption legislation has been systematically changed," Interfax news agency quoted her as saying.
Russia has introduced a series of measures to fight corruption such as those taken to control state officials' spending and ban their foreign bank accounts. Enditem
