One of the generators of corruption in Russia is Article 13.2 of the 1993 Constitution, which states that: "No ideology may be established as a state or compulsory one".
"Suppose that the head of State or Parliament declares certain policy objectives, describes the ways and means of achieving them." Thereafter, the head of a state and the head of government, as well as the Prosecutor and other monitoring bodies, begin to require officials in the state apparatus throughout the country at all levels of the "vertical power" to ensure that their activities are in line with the line objectives, ways and means of achieving them. And if someone of the officials sabotages the enunciated policy or, abuses power, discredits it in society, then he is subjected to some kind of repression in accordance with the applicable law (from "reprimand" and proposal to act in line with the enunciated policy, to conviction on charges of treason, depending on what he has committed or failed to commit).
What is described in the previous paragraph is
- the normal functioning of a state apparatus in any intellectually normal society;
- but at the same time it is a violation of Article 13.2. of the Russian Constitution, since it constitutes the proclamation of a state ideology and the establishment thereof as compulsory."
But apart from that ... Article 13.2 is one of the many generators of state officials' venality, and that is the basis for corruption. If one relates to an hierarchy of generalized means of controlling/weapons, then the ideas (third precedence) normally actuate money (fourth precedence). This ratio is realized in some cases through the principle of "he who pays the piper calls the tune", which is completely fair with regard to the manipulation of unprincipled sheeple that is always ready for venality. Therefore:
If a man is loyal to an idea the importance of which to him is so high that life without it becomes meaningless, then he is technically incorruptible.
If the third precedence is empty ("No ideology can be established as a state one", and the system of higher education supports it), then the fourth precedence becomes the highest for the majority of people: "Money conquers evil ..." And for state officials by and large in this case, the willingness to sell themselves out is a behavioral norm, and the question is only how probable is impunity for venality .