Fighting Corruption and Ensuring Public Safety

The article considers anti‑corruption as one of the measures to ensure public security in Russia. The purpose of the study is to develop proposals that contribute to increasing the effectiveness of combating corruption in the context of ensuring public security in the Russian Federation. To achieve this goal, special attention is paid to corruption crimes that pose the greatest threat to public and state security, and existing measures to combat this socially dangerous phenomenon are analyzed. The methodological basis of the study is the dialectical method of scientific knowledge, methods of analysis and synthesis, as well as comparative legal and special legal methods. Conclusions. In the system of public security measures, the fight against corruption should occupy a leading place, since corruption‑related crimes pose a real or long‑term threat to public security in particular and national security in general. The primary measures to combat corruption at the present stage should be: strengthening criminal liability for corruption crimes; creating a map of corruption risks in the field of public security; strengthening the prevention of corruption in the field of anti‑terrorist protection of facilities (territories); developing and improving tangible and intangible ways to encourage employees aimed at preventing bribery and spreading the practice of reporting corruption activities; widespread media coverage of the facts of real anti‑corruption; improvement of mechanisms to counter the use of digital financial assets and digital currency for corrupt purposes.