The article examines the main stages of the development of the Russian anti-corruption legislation, which in a relatively short time has overcome the path in its development from a rather disparate legal array to a separate legislative block united by a single subject and purpose of legal regulation. Seven stages of the development of domestic anti-corruption legislation from 1991 to the present have been identified, each of which has its own characteristics due to the dynamics of public relations and the political will that determines the main directions of the state anti-corruption policy. The authors conclude that initially the task of combating corruption was of subordinate importance and was considered exclusively in the context of suppressing corrupt ties of organized crime. The adoption of the basic Federal law “On Combating Corruption” has become a kind of foundation for the formation of a set of special legislative and subordinate regulatory legal acts around it, dedicated to certain areas of the state anti-corruption policy. The authors consider the consolidation of anticorruption standards at the constitutional level to be a logical continuation of the development of anticorruption legislation, which gave rise to a wave of updating and consolidating anti-corruption regulation, up to subordination to the goals of combating corruption of financial, legal and information-legal tools. Further disclosure of the potential of anti-corruption legislation is associated with the increased use of both legal and religious, ethical regulators, including the introduction of the institution of shame, as well as social engineering and cybernetics to ensure comprehensive control over established norms of behavior.