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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Opinion polls show that there are fewer supporters of democracy in Russia than in Ukraine.
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President Vladimir Putin&#39;s move earlier this week to enhance his own power in response to a wave of terrorism does not take on the real problem: the corrupt and unreformed security
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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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Russia offered on Tuesday to ease restrictions on international observers monitoring its March 2 presidential vote, but Europe's main election watchdog said the concessions did not go far enough.
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MOSCOW, Sept. 4 -- A week after Russia's chief prosecutor announced the arrest of 10 suspects in the contract-style killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the investigation into her murder appears to be in disarray.
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Russian authorities say they intend to pursue a bribery case against Ukraine's nominated prime minister.
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MOSCOW Russia&#39;s lower house of Parliament took its first step on Friday toward adopting President Vladimir Putin&#39;s sweeping overhaul of the country&#39;s political system, despite signs of popular dissent, particularly in regions distant from the capital.
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A Georgian in Moscow describes the difficulties posed by Russia's economic sanctions against her country.
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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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Russia's banking sector is maturing, despite the brutal killing of a top government reformer last month.
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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, Jun 5 (IPS) - Long seen as funding the continent's wars and  doing little other than seeking out petroleum and mineral  resources, Russia is now looking to kick-start better trade  relations with Africa, and has made its first move by writing off  the majority of the continent's debt.
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Multinational companies and financial institutions that use bribery and tolerate illicitly gained wealth are helping fuel corruption in the world's poorest countries, a global corruption watchdog said on Wednesday.
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Environmentalists in Russia are finding an unlikely ally in the Kremlin as it works to stall projects by oil companies on an island unfathomably rich with oil and gas.
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MOSCOW. Feb 1 (Interfax) - Civil society and a free mass media offer the best cure for corruption, President Vladimir Putin told a Thursday press conference in the Kremlin.
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Russia's fragmented opposition marshalled its thin ranks against President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, but a modest turnout at a Moscow rally -- dwarfed by the police presence -- only underscored his grip on power.