An agreement on cooperation in the monitoring...
The working group, jointly headed by Kremlin deputy chief of staff Vladislav Surkov and Obama"s top adviser on Russia Michael McFaul, was created as part of a Russian-U.S. presidential commission established in summer 2009, during U.S. President Barack Obama"s visit to the Russian capital, Moscow.
"For me, the main thing was a real practical... [result]. The proposal, which was supported by everybody. An agreement to jointly monitor corruption in Russia and in the U.S. and to develop universal corruption evaluation criteria based on the Russian and U.S. experience was reached with such a respected international organization as Transparency International, with its representative in the United States and in Russia," said Ella Pamfilova, who heads Russia"s presidential Civil Society Institution and Human Rights Council.
"This is extremely important in as far as American businesses operate in Russia and our businesses in the U.S.," she added.