Russian President Dmitry Medvedev identified the fight against corruption and crime a priority of the Moscow city government's agenda and urged it to scrap decrees adopted illegally under former mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
"All administrative decisions that create conditions for corruption must be eradicated along with personal decrees that have been adopted in violation of the law," Medvedev said at a meeting with Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
Sobyanin replaced long-serving Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov, who Medvedev fired in late September, citing a "loss of confidence." Luzhkov had been criticized for illegally selling land to companies connected to his billionaire wife, Yelena Baturina.
GORKI, November 29 (RIA Novosti)
