Four years after the Velvet Revolution, fueled in part by widespread frustration with perceived government corruption in Armenia, many Armenians still say corruption is a major problem in the country.
That is according to new numbers from the Caucasus Research Resource Center. From last October to November, the organization conducted a major public opinion survey, interviewing a representative sample of over 1,500 Armenians.
Strikingly, the majority of respondents said seven forms of corruption — ranging from nepotism and conflicts of interest to bribe-taking and money laundering — remain “common” in Armenia.
Many Armenians continue to see corruption in a wide variety of institutions, with over half of those polled saying 14 out of 24 key bodies were “corrupt to a great extent” or “corrupt to some extent.”The bodies perceived to be most corrupt were the media (The proportion of respondents saying that corruption had a “very big” impact rose by about 6 points since a previous CRRC corruption survey from 2019, one year after the Velvet Revolution. The proportion of those answering that corruption had a “rather bigOverwhelming majority of those polled supported five anti-corruption initiatives that the Armenian government has floated, even while most people said they were unaware of many anti-corruption efforts that the government has already undertaken.For instance
The poll results have a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.
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