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Viewing cable 06DUSHANBE616, TAJIKISTAN'S STRATEGIC RESEARCH CENTER'S SURPRISINGLY

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06DUSHANBE616 2006-04-07 07:26 2011-08-30 01:44 CONFIDENTIAL Embassy Dushanbe
VZCZCXRO5347
PP RUEHDBU
DE RUEHDBU #0616/01 0970726
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
P 070726Z APR 06
FM AMEMBASSY DUSHANBE
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7124
INFO RUEHDBU/AMEMBASSY DUSHANBE 8302
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 04 DUSHANBE 000616 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR E, P, S/P, SCA/CEN, EUR/ACE, INR, MCC 
NSC FOR MILLARD, MERKEL 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL:  4/7/2016 
TAGS: PGOV ECON SOCI KCRM MCC TI
SUBJECT: TAJIKISTAN'S STRATEGIC RESEARCH CENTER'S SURPRISINGLY 
ACCURATE LOOK AT CORRUPTION 
 
REF: A) DUSHANBE 0576  B) DUSHANBE 0583 
 
CLASSIFIED BY: Richard E. Hoagland, Ambassador, EXEC, Embassy 
Dushanbe. 
REASON: 1.4 (b), (d) 
 
 
 
1.  (SBU) SUMMARY:  In a March 23 posting on the "Asia-Plus" 
website, the director of President Rahmonov's Strategic Research 
Center think tank discussed his preliminary findings from an 
on-going study mandated by President Rahmonov about corruption 
in Tajikistan.  His conclusions are surprisingly frank and, in 
our estimation, quite accurate, at least in describing the 
extent of the problem.  A public discussion of corruption like 
this in a CIS country is unusually, maybe even uniquely, 
progressive, fundamentally refreshing, and potentially an 
important initial step toward transparency and good governance. 
If the final SRC report is not just words but leads to concerted 
action over time, we recommend that the Department seriously 
consider whether Tajikistan should become a candidate for MCC 
threshold status.  This would strongly reinforce the 
Administration's policy of promoting a progressive eastern 
Central Asian corridor of reform and growth through Afghanistan 
and into South Asia.  END SUMMARY. 
 
2.  (U) Especially since the 2004-2005 wave of "color 
revolutions" in the CIS, President Rahmonov has railed against 
corruption in his key public speeches and reported meetings with 
his cabinet, indicating top levels of the government clearly 
understand at least one of the causes of extreme public 
discontent.  In addition to rhetorical gestures, Rahmonov 
commissioned his government's think tank, the Strategic Research 
Center (SRC), to report on corruption in Tajikistan.  In the 
first phase of the study, focus groups involved 150 people.  The 
second phase, still in progress, will involve 2,500 citizens 
from 24 towns and districts.  On March 23, the "Asia-Plus" 
website published a long interview in which SRC Director Suhrob 
Sharipov discussed the unusually candid, and we believe quite 
accurate, findings from the preliminary study.  Lightly edited 
excerpts of the translated interview follow. 
 
3.  (U) Begin excerpts: 
 
According to our research, corruption in its various forms has 
spread to virtually all sectors of society.  However, it has 
been especially rife in state bodies such as tax and customs 
services, courts, prosecutor's offices, and organizations 
involved in distributing property, real estate, and natural 
resources.  The research shows that corruption is most common 
among officials, since they control the management system and 
decision-making mechanisms. 
 
CORRUPTION IS THE "SECOND TAX" 
 
Corruption in state bodies has been spreading and has a tendency 
towards institutionalization and legalization.  Very often, 
state bodies build their internal structures and procedures in a 
way that enables them to bring in additional incomes in the form 
of collections and fees and other forms of extortion. 
Respondents say that extortion has, in fact, become the second 
tax that is collected from corporate bodies and private 
individuals. 
 
EDUCATION AND HEALTH 
 
DUSHANBE 00000616  002 OF 004 
 
 
 
Education and health are the most painful issues today.  Just 
look at what is taking place in these fields! The whole 
generation of young people now thinks that you can't pass your 
exams or tests without giving money to teachers.  What 
specialists will they make after graduating from a higher 
educational establishment?  Doctors extort money from patients, 
but even then there is no guarantee that the patient will 
recover since the doctor buys his diploma with money!  It is not 
accidental that the president pays great attention to exactly 
these spheres. 
 
CAUSES OF CORRUPTION 
 
The research shows that the most widespread method of corruption 
is giving and taking bribes.  However, in our society the 
following forms [of corruption] are rife:  clan relations, 
nepotism, and mechanations in distributing state property, 
extortion, bribing officials, and so on. 
 
Most of those polled think that the main reason for corruption 
is the low standard of living.  But this is not the only reason. 
 There are a great number of factors that give rise to 
corruption, including inadequate protection of property, 
unwarranted control of the market by the state with its weak 
management, inefficient judicial and taxation systems, the lack 
of transparency in financial issues, and the lack of personnel 
capacity.  The civil war, which resulted in people with a poor 
knowledge of modern political and economic processes coming to 
power, should also be taken into account.  All these factors are 
a favorable breeding ground for corruption in our country. 
 
WE GET BAMBOOZLED BY SOPHSTICATED MONOPOLISTIC INVESTORS 
 
The weak personnel capacity, for example, leads to the fact that 
foreign firms and transnational corporations in our country are 
also making use of the corruptness of officials to achieve their 
goals instead of following legal procedures and protecting 
citizens' interests.  Such a tendency is developing in our 
country.  Foreign companies operating in Tajikistan's energy and 
nonferrous metals sectors have experts and specialists of much 
higher level than that of most experts in the Tajik government. 
Foreign experts use the most up-to-date methods to manage the 
market and have professional skills to make use of international 
laws and modern economic technologies.  As a result, a Tajik 
official sometimes can't make heads or tails of deals with 
foreign experts.  That is why, I think, that the state is 
obliged to attract experts whose skills are not second to that 
of their foreign colleagues to investment projects, especially 
as in strategic fields such as energy, nonferrous metallurgy, 
and the cotton and gold industries.  Only after that will it be 
possible, at least, to restrict corruption and protect national 
interests in an efficient way. 
 
The threat of monopolizing the investment space has emerged 
since major investors entered the country.  I think that the 
government is doing right by attracting other companies, 
including from neighboring countries, to joint investment 
projects.  This has been done to create competition between 
major companies in the investment field of the country.  The 
tougher the competition, the more it will be to the country's 
benefit. The fewer the participants, the greater threat of 
monopolization of the market, corruption, and of someone's 
influence taking precedence over fairness to the general public. 
 
DUSHANBE 00000616  003 OF 004 
 
 
 
Break excerpts. 
 
4.  (C) COMMENT:  Sharipov's comments about the threat of 
monopolization by a foreign country coming in to flim-flam and 
bamboozle, especially in the energy and non-ferrous metals 
sectors, would seem to be a not-so-veiled reference to Russia. 
But in the other sectors mentioned, Swiss companies dominate 
cotton futures, and the UK dominates gold mining.  In fact, in 
2004, the British director of the UK gold mining operation in 
Tajikistan got caught with his hand in the till, allegedly to 
the tune of $30 million.  Thus, it's understandable that 
Tajikistan is nervous and sometimes overly cautious about 
foreign investors - apart from the fact that the old-guard 
Ministry of Security still knee-jerk suspects that every 
potential investor is a spy.  END COMMENT. 
 
5.  (U) Resume excerpts. 
 
WHY IS THERE A NEED FOR SUCH RESEARCH? 
 
The situation related to corruption is very serious, if not 
critical.  This phenomenon is like a giant octopus with 
tentacles seizing almost all vital spheres of public life.  This 
scourge is hindering political, economic, and social reforms in 
the country. 
 
The main signal that urged the authorities to start the research 
came from the fact that corruption has spread to the social 
spheres of education and health.  This is the borderline after 
which, I think, a state loses control of the country.  That is 
why the president raised the issue dramatically, especially, as 
he did at the latest government session.  He said, "Either we 
will learn how to live and manage in keeping with the new 
requirements in politics, economy, and business, or we will find 
ourselves on the sidelines of civilized life."  That is why we 
decided to make an attempt to objectively study the phenomenon 
of corruption and find out its underlying causes and answer the 
question as to what place it occupies in the public life, and, 
on the basis of this, to draw serious conclusions. 
 
Corruption cannot be curbed during a short period of time.  It 
will take many years to eliminate the ramifications of 
corruption in Tajikistan.  If we take a serious approach towards 
this problem and tackle it not theoretically but in practice, 
then we will manage to reduce corruption in the next few years. 
Corruption will be tangibly reduced in the law-enforcement 
agencies.  Unfortunately, everything will remain the same in 
business, especially in the private sector.  It is too early to 
talk about reducing corruption in this field unless free trade 
laws and international norms of conducting business will be 
given priority in our country, unless there is a healthy 
competition and middle class in Tajikistan. 
 
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6.  (C) COMMENT:  A public discussion of corruption like this is 
an important initial step toward transparency and good 
governance.  At least it fairly accurately recognizes the 
problem.  However, there are more fundamental issues involved in 
corruption in Tajikistan, not the least of which is the public 
perception - and perhaps reality - that Rahmonov and his family, 
through Orien Bank and its Somoni holding company, increasingly 
control and profit enormously from important sectors of the 
 
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economy.  Further, Rahmonov's consolidation of power and 
achievement of stability have been based, to a certain extent, 
on rent-giving among geographic and economic clans and to former 
warlords on both sides of the 1992-97 civil war.  As he famously 
told Afghanistan's President Karzai in 2005, "If you want 
stability, bring the warlords down from the hills and make them 
rich."  Finally, what Sharipov has not said is that 70 years of 
Soviet domination established corruption as a cultural norm. 
Still, it is refreshing and encouraging to see a government body 
authorized by the president to create a report like this.  If 
the final SRC report is not just words but leads to action, the 
Department should seriously consider whether Tajikistan should 
become a candidate for MCC threshold status.  END COMMENT. 
 
7.  (U) BIO NOTE:  Suhrob Sharipov was born in Dushanbe in 1963. 
 He graduated from the philology faculty of M.V. Lomonosov 
Moscow State University in 1988.  From 1990 to 1998 he was a 
post-graduate student and a researcher at the philosophy faculty 
of the Moscow State University.  From 1998 to 2001, Sharipov 
worked as the head of the Strategic Research Centre's interior 
policy department.  From 2001 to 2003, he held the post of 
deputy head of the presidential office's information and 
analytical department.  He worked as the Tajik president's aide 
from 2003 to 2005.  He has been the director of the Strategic 
Research Centre under the Tajik president since 2005.  He is a 
candidate of philological sciences and a doctor of political 
sciences.  Sharipov understands enough English that 
conversations can be conducted in both Russian and English. 
HOAGLAND