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Britain's Top Auditor Audits Stepashin.
(From The Moscow Times)
Sergei Stepashin, the country's top auditor, came under unusual scrutiny on Monday when Britain's National Audit Office presented him with an evaluation of his work.
Stepashin's Audit Chamber received high marks for its talented staff and outreach to the regions in the first independent assessment of the chamber in its 10-year existence.
But if the Audit Chamber gains more independence, its employees will play an important role in building civil society and fighting corruption, Sir John Bourn, head of Britain's audit office, told government officials and State Duma deputies during the presentation of the report.
"An independent audit chamber is one of those crucial institutions, and it makes democracy work," he said on the sidelines of the gathering.
The audit falls into a larger review of the performance of state bodies that was commissioned by the Russian government and funded by Britain's Department for International Development.
A key recommendation for the Audit Chamber was making it financially independent of the Finance Ministry, which currently controls its purse strings.
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