CORRUPTION AS A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY
This article is devoted to the analysis of corruption as a threat to national security. The concept of corruption is defined, its features are revealed, which allow us to draw a conclusion about its impact on national security. According to the authors, corruption slows down economic and social transformations; reduces tax revenues to the budget, increases the property inequality of citizens; has a negative impact on many political institutions. The lack of a single legal definition of corruption is revealed, which makes it difficult to understand this phenomenon as a set of criminal acts. The shortcomings of the system of anti-corruption measures are identified, which include ineffective measures of control and supervision over the implementation of anti-corruption legislation, low threats of punishability for corruption for government officials, a tendency to adopt laws that mitigate the responsibility of officials, the lack of inevitability of punishment for a civil servant who submitted an income declaration containing false information, the lack of strict disciplinary and administrative measures of responsibility in relation to a conflict of interest situation, etc.