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Russian Firms Get Low Marks In Backing Whistle-Blowing.
(From The Moscow Times)
Only 22 percent of Russian firms encourage whistle-blowing, according to a report released Tuesday, which cited the country's historical enmity toward "informants" as the reason for the low score.
Roughly one in five Russian companies answered positively to the question, "Have conditions been created in your company for the existence of potential whistle-blowers?" -- putting it well below the worldwide average of 45 percent.
The study, conducted by Grant Thornton International, an organization of independently owned consultancies, placed Russia next to Japan (22 percent), Hong Kong (20 percent) and Greece (18 percent), while Brazil (85 percent), Denmark (71 percent) and Sweden (71 percent) scored highest.
"I am astonished that in Russia the portion of companies that encourage whistle-blowers is so high," Ivan Sapronov, a partner at Grant Thornton Russia, said in a statement.
He said the Russian view of ...
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