MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian regional court has given a deputy director of a local branch of Russia's Civil Service Academy a 3 1/2 year suspended sentence for bribery.
The court in Vladimir, to the east of Moscow, found Vladimir Starostin, a professor at the Academy's management department, guilty of receiving a 100,000 ruble ($4,200) bribe in February this year from an applicant for helping him to become a student, local prosecutors said.
The judgment comes as Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a plan on Thursday to counter Russia's rampant corruption.
The president, a former lawyer, has made the fight against corruption one of his top priorities, signing a decree setting up a presidential anti-corruption council just two weeks after his inauguration.
