Putin asks Duma for legislation to make executive officials’ income and assets more transparent
The draft calls for newly elected officials at lower levels to report their assets and income within 15 days of taking office and announce their income and expenditures for the previous year every year.
Russia needs to purge its system of the problem of local corruption. Basic changes: Russian governors should be elected for a single term of 5 years and barred from taking another office for 6 years afterwards. The State Duma should adopt a committee-centered system and constituencies should not be divided into districts. 1/4 of all MPs should face election each year. Russian ministers should be selected from members of the Duma, and elections for the State Duma should take place at the same time as elections for local councils. See the Charter for Permanent Peace and Development.