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Abstract. The article shows the notion content of corruption and the specificity of its demonstration as a complex social phenomenon which creates the system of protection from social control. The authors of this article give Special attention to the identification of the system strategy and the arrangement of the authorities' activity in some cases. This problem is really actual within the limits of modern democratic reforms and political modernization.

Key words and phrases: взяточничество и мздоимство, использование служебного положения, знакомств, связей, подкупа, благодарности за оказанные "услуги", борьба с коррупцией, corrupt practice and bribery, the use of jobbery, connections, relations, subornation, the gratitude for given "services", struggle against, corruption