MOSCOW. Sept 30 (Interfax) - The new anti-corruption measures planned by the Russian leadership "target the consequences rather than their causes" and are unlikely to bring about a desired result, said INDEM Foundation think tank President Georgy Satarov.

"I think this won't have a significant impression on the corrupt, because they can easily evade such banal forms of control," Satarov told Interfax.

Sergei Naryshkin, the Russian presidential chief of staff and the chairman of the presidential Anti-Corruption Council, told journalists on Tuesday that a package of anti-corruption bills envision that not only individuals but also legal entities may be held liable for corruption, obliges the prime minister, his deputies, federal ministers, and members of their families to declare their property and incomes, and imposes a two-year moratorium on government officials' employment by business companies they dealt with while in office.

"Virtually all that was said presumes in this or that form the fulfillment of our obligations under the UN (anti-corruption) convention, which we signed several years ago. There is no special invention whatsoever here. This was planned long ago, and now it has been tailored to the needs of the presidential anticorruption plan purely for PR purposes," Satarov said.

A two-year moratorium on government officials' switchover to a business company they dealt with during their government service "sounds fantastically ridiculous, because it is considered appropriate in this country to run a business while holding an office," he said.

As regards the intention to oblige the prime minister, his deputies, federal ministers, and members of their families to declare their property and incomes, Satarov said, "There is a huge number of ways to conceal your incomes without involving your wife or even your mistress in this."

The measures proposed "are not serious enough and target consequences rather than their causes," he said.

"The first thing that needs to be done is to provide the conditions in which it would be possible to counter corruption in Russia in principle. These are first of all external control of bureaucracy and the authorities on the part of society through real rather than manipulated opposition and through independent media, and also the existence of an independent judiciary and parliament, that is, true separation of government branches capable of controlling each other," Satarov said.