This study investigates the complex issue of manifestations of corruption in power as the critical national factor of a negative, destructive, nationwide nature. The paper provides a comparative analysis of the practices of other European states in combating corruption, describes the significance of this experience for Ukraine. The study also touched upon the issues of searching for various forms of anti-corruption, including legal means. All of the above allowed the author to highlight the main purpose of writing this paper – a comprehensive, systematic examination of the implementation of the fight against corruption as a general social issue using evidence from Ukraine and Western Europe. The main and practically significant results were obtained by theoretical and methodological research of scientific publications covering the issues of corruption both at the international and international levels, tools of comparative legal analysis, system-structural analysis, value-normative and institutional methods, content analysis results of sociological surveys, statistical data and official documents, etc. The study presents information data from surveys conducted by various social independent institutions: The O. Razumkov Ukrainian Centre for Economic and Political Studies; the Kyiv International Sociology Institute, etc. This article is a problem study of an academic, advisory socio-political, and legal nature, which has an unconditional practical significance, as well as the originality of clarifying some issues. The materials of the publication study are aimed at attempts to thoroughly investigate the key aspects of the development of anti-corruption legislation and other measures to counter corruption in Ukraine. Furthermore, the subjects brought up in this paper are, admittedly, promising for further extensive research and refinement of individual points superficially touched upon herein