Corruption as a social phenomenon
The relevance and novelty of the work: the Article reveals one of the most urgent problems of Russian society - corruption. The paper examines the causes of this social phenomenon, the consequences of corruption in all spheres of life of society, the authors dwell in detail on the methods of struggle against corruption, noted the ambiguous attitude to it in society. The novelty of this work is that the authors tried to review and evaluate the phenomenon of corruption as a threat of alienation of power from society, erosion of democratic values in public consciousness and, ultimately, contrary to the interests of national development. Objective: to demonstrate the inconsistency and ambiguity of such social phenomena as corruption and identify the main methods of dealing with its manifestations. Materials and methods: in preparing the article used materials of public speaking contemporary leaders of the Russian state and research on this issue. The authors used systematic analysis and logical method when dealing with this phenomenon. Results: the authors analyzed the phenomenon of corruption, reasons of its occurrence and the methods of combating it.