Russia Slow to Fight Corruption
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Russia is seen as more corrupt than Senegal, Cuba and Botswana, this year&#39;s Corruption Perceptions Index, released by Transparency International on Wednesday, finds.
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Kazakhstan, a country of growing strategic importance, has a record of corruption, flawed elections and rights violations.
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Old Russia hands who open up the United Nation&#39;s new World Investment Report are in for a surprise. Foreign direct investment into Russia hit a four-year low in 2003, the report found, plunging to $1.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 23 -- With parliamentary elections just weeks away, Russia has still not extended an invitation to Europe's principal election watchdog to monitor the vote. Opposition activists and Western diplomats charge that the authorities here are deliberately stalling to limit the work of an...
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Russia remains at loggerheads with Western nations over Kosovo, despite months of diplomacy.
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PEREDELKINO, Russia -- The unpaved, unlit roads are clogged with traffic. Getting to and from work in the center of Moscow is a 90-minute crawl each way. The schools are lousy. There are no stores within walking distance. Local healthcare facilities are primitive.
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Jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky says it will be hard for the next president to rebuild rule of law in Russia.
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An embezzlement scandal is barely standing out in China, where cases of bank corruption involving hundreds of millions of dollars seem to pop up regularly.
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MOSCOW  - In the bloodstained post-Soviet period, feuds over money and power have often been solved by bullets or bombs. But confirmation that Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was disfigured by dioxin draws attention to suspicious cases in Russia in which poison may have been used to silence political foes and settle business scores.
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MOSCOW, Sep 21 (IPS) - A few days after his appointment as new Prime  Minister, Viktor Zubkov promised to tackle Russia's biggest  problem: corruption. But analysts have their doubts how far he  can succeed given that corruption has permeated from the top to  the lowest positions.
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AIDS and the HIV virus are spreading at an alarming pace in Russia, but the government lacks the political will to combat the epidemic that may claim tens of thousands of lives within the next few years, leading experts warned Wednesday.
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MOSCOW. Sept 5 (Interfax) - It is necessary to partially amend Russia's legislation on the use of mineral resources, said Russian presidential aide Igor Shuvalov. "All legislation having to do with natural resources is very hard to push in our country.
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A Moscow court on Tuesday delayed a  hearing into a $22.5 billion lawsuit by Russia&#39;s federal  customs service against Bank of New York to November after the  plaintiffs asked the Foreign Ministry to intervene.
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IT HAS taken Russia a long time to find a way to interfere with the eastward expansion of the European Union and Nato.
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BRATISLAVA, Nov 1 (IPS) - Lack of government action has left former communist  states in Eastern Europe struggling to shake off a culture of  corruption, experts say.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- The old white Zhiguli fairly flew down the highway, skimming precariously over the potholes as Garri Nersesov clutched the wheel and declared victory in the war on corruption.
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Christmas is coming but Russian lawmakers have yet to finalise the holiday calendar, leaving millions of Russians' holiday plans up in the air.