In a number of recent elections, the line between state activities and political campaigning was even completely blurred with government facilities and public resources openly misused for campaign purposes. The overt misuse of incumbencies, state positions and public resources have been regularly addressed by international electoral observers in some recent elections, for example in Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Hungary, Republic of Moldova, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine. Also the use of financial incentives (social assistance programmes, salary increases, bonuses etc.) as campaign tools was the subject of widespread criticism levelled against incumbents there.