administrative oligarchy and the continuity of corruption in russia

abstract in the past twenty-five years, the russian government has been faced with widespread corruption and despite many efforts it hasn’t been able to control that. according to transparency international report in 2013, this country was the 127th among 177 countries. this essay tries to analyze the role of administrative oligarchy and continuity of corruption in russia. the main question of this article is that why the russian government programs to prevent the corruption has been ineffectiveness? the hypothesis is that the power of administrative oligarchy is the main barrier preventing the effectiveness of the anti-corruption programs of russian government. to examine this hypothesis, we discuss about the concept of oligarchy and its indications, the formation of oligarchy in russia and its relations with corruption, and impact of power of administrative oligarchy on the ineffectiveness of anti-corruption programs.