Anti-Corruption Foundation

The Anti-Corruption Foundation
Фонд борьбы с коррупцией
Abbreviation ФБК, FBK
Formation 9 September 2011
Type NGO
Legal status Non-commercial foundation (Article 7, NCO Law of Russia)
Purpose Fighting corruption in Russia
Headquarters Moscow, Russia
Staff
30
Website fbk.info/english/about/

The Anti-Corruption Foundation (Russian: Фонд борьбы с коррупцией (Fond Borby s Korruptsiey), abbr. ФБК, FBK) is a Russian nonprofit organization based in Moscow established in 2011 by activist and politician Alexei Navalny. Its main goal is to investigate and to expose corruption cases among high-ranking Russian government officials.[1] Its distinguishing feature is that it is funded by private donations from Russian citizens. Among other activities, the foundation publish movies on YouTube about corruption of Russian officials, such as Chaika and He Is Not Dimon to You.

Mission

FBK carries out investigations into corruption by Russian authorities. They are taking measures to prevent stealing of budget money. Also FBK helps people to make authorities work in the right way to provide normal conditions in the field of utilities sector, transport, roadways, elections, etc.

Budget

FBK is funded by money transfers from its supporters; mostly these are donations from ordinary people. In 2014 the budget was 28.5 million roubles;[2] in 2016, 45 million.[3]

Management[4]

Position Name
Founder of FBK Alexey Navalny
Director of FBK Roman Rubanov
Executive manager Vladimir Ashurkov
Press secretary Kira Yarmysh
Creative director Elena Marus
Anti-corruption project "RosPil" Lubov Sobol
Anti-corruption project "RosYama" Tatiana Torocheshnikova
Responsible for investigations Georgy Alburov, Nikita Kulachenkov

Media

FBK created own media 'Leviathan' in order to have a possibility to register for press conferences of Vladimir Putin and make a request to authorities. Since 2016 it has been publishing one news item each day.[5] The name 'Leviathan' was taken from Leviathan, 2014 award-winning film by Andrey Zvyagintsev.

Films

FBK has made the following films:

Important investigations

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

Volunteers and employees of the Anti-corruption Foundation arrested on 26 March 2017

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About FBK".
  2. ↑ "Annual report of FBK-2014".
  3. ↑ "Annual report of FBK-2016" (PDF).
  4. ↑ "Фонд борьбы с коррупцией". сайт ФБК (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-04-23.
  5. ↑ "Leviathan media".
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