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Azerbaijan ranking 40th in the list of World's Most Corrupt Countries

30 June 2008 [09:31] - TODAY.AZ
International organization Transparency International has released its annual report named "Corruption barometer".
According to RIA Novosti, in line with the report Azerbaijan falls on the list of countries, having problems related to corruption. Azerbaijan had the rating 2.1, the same with Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Rating was counted by a 10 point scale. The higher is the indicator, the lower is corruption.

Turkmenistan had 2 points and Russia 2.3.

The most corrupted are such countries as Myanmar, Somali, Iraq, Haiti and Uzbekistan and the least are Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada and Norway.

The main criteria of the rating was data, received from 12 independent institutions.

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