NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia. Nov 15 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised unflinching action against corruption.
"We will continue to uproot this pest in an extremely serious way, regardless of one's position or party affiliation, let me repeat," Putin said at a meeting of the supervisory board of the Strategic Initiatives Agency on Thursday.
He said that evidence collected by the Federal Security Service (FSB) alone had become the basis for more than 7,500 corruption cases with members of various parties being among suspects.
"Very many cases have resulted in convictions. For example, the well-known case of the former governor of Tula region - he got more than nine years in prison. There have been quite many such cases," the president said.
"In Yaroslavl there was a member of Democratic Platform, I think, in Novosibirsk region a member of the KPRF [Communist Party], in Yakutia a member of A Just Russia," he said.