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Being a championship Business School amongst 14 ones selected for the piloting of the Anti-Corruption Toolkit, Lomonosov MSU Business School has incorporated the elements of the toolkit into curriculum at the level of a separate discipline “Anticorruption: management risks” as well embodied few themes into the content of Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility courses. The presentation aims to deliver the results of the toolkit implementation on the Anti-corruption Working Group meeting for pilot schools in Berlin. The presentation also reports on the results of the research conducted amongst MSU BS students to estimate the existing level of their commitment to follow the responsibility principles. To collect data the focus group methodology was seen to be the most appropriate as the respondents had an opportunity to reveal the spectrum of opinions through open discussion. The results of this series of focus groups showed that middle and top managers had a very clear understanding of the importance of corporate social responsibility and were aware of its fundamental principles. In general the MSU BS’s MBA students demonstrated strong personal commitment to follow the principles of business ethics. However they were very sceptical about widespread penetration of the principles in the Russian business community. The MBA students stressed that this fact constituted a series barrier to the development of civilized business in Russia. The information collected gave MSU BS a clear signal about the necessity to start discussing and training the adherence to responsibility and ethics principles at earlier stages of managerial education, namely at master and bachelor level programmes.