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Centre Party MP's comments spark campaign finance row 15 May 2008 12:17 GMT
... Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO). GRECO issued a report last year ... to set up a pulp mill in Russia. Its main owners include investor , would ...
Software piracy drops in the UK 15 May 2008 12:17 GMT
... the chart with 20 per cent, while Armenia is bottom with an estimated 93 per ... there was good news in both areas. Russian rates have fallen fast, doubling the value ... BSA studies economic impact of illegal software Fraudster facing up to 10 years in jail ...
Bullies of the Caucasus 15 May 2008 12:13 GMT
... deep in the trenches, stop digging. Both Russia and Georgia darkly warned last week of the ... keep digging. Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili said Moscow and Tbilisi have come "very close" to a military ...
End of Lukashenko's Era // Politics (May 15, 2008) 15 May 2008 10:35 GMT
... 14 year in power the President of Belarus has been quite popular. Though he is ... years Mr Lukashenko has succeeded in securing Russian subsidies for his country. After a short ... After a short failure of 2007 as Moscow seemed to have given up the game �gas ...
Love cheat killed wife with a mallet when she told him she was pregnant 15 May 2008 10:32 GMT
... hours to convict karate-fanatic Genestin of murder. Russian-born Mrs Genestin, 38, met her husband, a ... regular job and instead became a benefit fraudster. He also began an affair with a Ukrainian girl he had met via the internet. ...

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Monument to 'drunken pig' to go up in Ukraine 15 May 2008 10:29 GMT
... KIEV, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - The town of Komsomolsk in central Ukraine is to erect a monument to a ... year, the sculptor created a statue symbolizing corruption that portrayed an obese traffic policeman with ...
Israel's secret fears 15 May 2008 09:56 GMT
... in a climate of increasing racism, intolerance, corruption and militarism. A nation that has long ... himself faces serious accusations of corruption and bribery and, as his indictment becomes virtually inevitable, ... to go down well in his largely Russian-speaking constituency. Amid intensifying hostility and even derision, ...
Amur region dep governor charged with exceeding office powers 15 May 2008 09:52 GMT
... MOSCOW, May 15 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's Investigations Committee department on Thursday charged First ... Amur region officials. Three criminal cases over fraud committed by using office powers, and over ...
'Sleeping giant' Brazil wakes up to its potential 15 May 2008 09:49 GMT
... the South American giant - along with Russia, India and China - as a global ... a throwback toward the ingrained system of corruption may again erupt, especially with so much ...
Manchester police chiefs left 'sickened and disappointed' by rioting Rangers fans 15 May 2008 09:45 GMT
... on Manchester for the big game against Russian side Zenit St Petersburg. An army of ... but they are the team of the corrupt and biased football and Scottish media establishment. ...
(494) A Bridge Too Far? 15 May 2008 08:29 GMT
... as a typical case of scapegoating by corrupt and incompetent politicians. It took 14 years ... Andrei Lankov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and now teaches at Kookmin University in ...
NATO picks Estonia for high-tech crime centre 15 May 2008 08:18 GMT
... - something Tallinn claims was orchestrated by Moscow in response to a dispute involving a ... in 1947 and is seen by many Russians as a testament to the Soviet Union's ... to cope with crimes such as online fraud, identity theft, hacking and child pornography. A ...
DSG faces worst of times to spark revival 15 May 2008 08:16 GMT
... French PC City chain closed, and a fraud was uncovered in its French warehouse. At least ... pulled back from a planned expansion into Russia, which might have offered more potential for ...
Walker's World: Building with BRICs 15 May 2008 07:45 GMT
... concept of the BRIC countries -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- was coined five years ... deal in common. The first is the corruption index of Transparency International, on which Brazil, ... on the almost empty treasure house of Siberia. The Brazilians are so far removed from ...
Expectations are high in Kiev that an EU-Ukraine summit in September in France will result in stronger ties between the two sides and boost progress in negotiations on a new bilateral agreement. 15 May 2008 06:54 GMT
... Ukraine has high hopes for French EU presidency ... tackle its inefficient administration, high levels of corruption, as well as judicial and economic reforms. ...
Najib tackles Altantuya, corruption allegations head-on 15 May 2008 06:52 GMT
... Najib also countered head-on the allegations of corruption in the government’s acquisition of two Scorpene ... also done via direct negotiations with a Russian government-owned company, Rosoboronexport. “This negotiation is in ...
Russian Far East governor hospitalized after police raid 15 May 2008 06:15 GMT
... The governor of the Primorye Territory, in Russia's Far East, has been hospitalized with heart ... Mesheryakov, who has been accused of large-scale fraud. In January Sergei Sopchuk, a first deputy ...
Malaysia's No. 2 leader rejects opposition claims of corruption, murder ties 15 May 2008 05:25 GMT
... prime minister defended himself against accusations of corruption and involvement in a murder case that ... to buy French submarines in 2002 and Russian fighter aircraft in 2003. Opposition leaders have ...
Recognizing Israel 15 May 2008 05:19 GMT
... in distress, from endangered Ethiopians to traumatized Russians. This is but a continuation of the ... favor, and often show little but disfavor. Corruption scandals -- including one with current Prime ...
Right to Left 15 May 2008 05:19 GMT
... at an early age," lest familial bonds corrupt the egalitarian experiment. The settlement had everything ... United States from the time of the Russian Revolution to the 1950s drive home one ...
Man charged, sought in Politkovskaya murder 15 May 2008 04:42 GMT
... May 12, 2008— The Investigative Committee at Russia’s Prosecutor-General’s Office announced today that 34-year-old ethnic ... Khadzhikurbanov, a former police officer with the Moscow Directorate for Combating Organized Crime, who were allegedly ... well known for her investigative reports on corruption, torture, and human rights abuses committed by ...
China's 17th Party Congress: Maintaining Delicate Balances 15 May 2008 04:41 GMT
... Party,” Hu launched a strong attack on corruption and improving the competence of cadres from ... to wean itself of dependence on imported Russian weapons and technologies. With respect to Taiwan, ...
Who Put 'Deep Throat' up as Olmert's Nemesis? 15 May 2008 04:40 GMT
... strong evidence of a new and grave corruption charge against prime minister Ehud Olmert, the ... have thrown in their lot with the ex-Russian Arkady Gaydamak, giving him a foothold in ...
EU: Brussels Putting Romania, Bulgaria Under The Microscope 15 May 2008 04:39 GMT
... EU: Brussels Putting Romania, Bulgaria Under The Microscope A ... in January 2007 In international indexes of corruption, Balkan neighbors Romania and Bulgaria regularly figure ... the process of reform will continue. RFE/RL's Romania-Moldova Service contributed to this report ...
Romania, Bulgaria Under The Microscope 15 May 2008 04:28 GMT
... EU: Brussels Putting Romania, Bulgaria Under The Microscope A ... in January 2007 In international indexes of corruption, Balkan neighbors Romania and Bulgaria regularly figure ... the process of reform will continue. RFE/RL's Romania-Moldova Service contributed to this report ...