A regular meeting of the debating club at the Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin took place on the 8th of October, 2015. The topic was chosen uneasy: “Corruption in Russia: a permanent or temporary phenomenon”. Students of the Institute of History and Law Roman Shelayev and Roman Osipov and students of the Institute of Social Technologies of the Syktyvkar State University after Pitirim Sorokin Yulia Polyakova and Victoria Suntsova decided to understand this issue. Young people insisted that corruption in Russia is ineradicable, the girls argued that this phenomenon is temporary.