Romania’s government scrapped a contentious corruption decree Sunday in a climbdown after the biggest mass demonstrations since the fall of communism, but protests still raged on for a sixth straight day… To Read More Visit Yahoo News
Georgia’s score in the Corruption Perception Index is 57 and is ranked 44th among 176 countries. Georgia remains the leader among former Soviet states, with the exception of the Baltics. The Corruption Perception Index lists countries based on how corrupt the countries’ public sector is. On a scale from 0…
Putin Is Also Draining The Swamp…Wrapping up a meeting about state funding for science, Putin questioned the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yevgeny Fortov, about the academy’s election of senior, unrelated-to-science officials as its members. Putin insinuated that they may fired if they are found to be moonlighting…
Alexey Kudrin, former Russian finance minister and confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, says the arrest of a high level economic minister is a sea change in Russian politics. “Bringing on charges with bribery against a person in the rank of a minister is a dramatic event for Russia that…
The United States of America will offer a grant of 4,2 million US dollars to the Republic of Moldova for developing a democratic and transparent governance. On September 14th, the Government of Moldova approved the decision to initiate negotiations and sign an assistance agreement to realize “an efficient, democratic and…
As a journalist and writer I have spent a great deal of time in Kiev, Ukraine. Last fall, I was introduced to the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and its head, Artem Sytnyk, former chief investigator of the Kiev Oblast. I spent an hour in person with his team…
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