The problematic issues of ensuring on state anti-corruption policy in Ukraine are researched in the article. The current areas of anti-corruption are justified. This scientific task is solved on the basis of a comprehensive analysis of the results of theoretical research and national legislation concerning corruption prevention. In particular, uncertainties and contradictions caused by corruption factors that pose a threat to the national security of Ukraine and exacerbate the systemic crisis of modern social development are clarified. The institutional support is analyzed in the sphere of anti-corruption, which is characterized by the adoption of a new legal framework and the range of entities that care for the prevention and combating corruption in the state. The conditions for ensuring the construction of an effective system for combating corruption at the state level are detailed. Today it is proved that the real result of anti-corruption policy is much lower than it was expected, as it is indicated by existing of a set of systemic problems. In order to implement the state anti-corruption policy effectively, directions for its improvement are proposed. Specifically they are the following: the introduction of a legal institution in order to prevent political corruption; the need to ratify the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions; improving the list of corruption crimes and establishing the adequacy of punishment for such crimes in accordance with their severity; introduction of effective mechanisms of external and internal state financial control and audit over the spending of budget funds.

Key words: anti-corruption legislation, state anti-corruption policy, prevention and combating corruption, corruption, political corruption.

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