All Posts Tagged With: "corruption"

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Gazeta.ru: Moscow’s Construction Plan Exemplifies Corruption

The editorial team at Gazeta.ru argues that Moscow’s controversial 15-year construction plan approved by the city last week is emblematic of corruption throughout the Russian government.

May 11, 2010 | Continued
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US Congress Holds Hearing on Magnitsky

The US Congress held a hearing today on the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, with congressmen promising to introduce legislation banning Russian officials involved in the death from traveling to the United States.

May 7, 2010 | Continued
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Pamfilova: Kremlin Enables ‘Endemic Corruption’ in North Caucasus

Human rights advocate Ella Pamfilova held a press conference on Friday to discuss an upcoming presidential meeting with rights representatives and to speak about the causes of the recent surge of violence in the North Caucasus.

Apr 23, 2010 | Continued
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Traffic Cops Awarded for ‘Resisting Temptation’

As President Medvedev vows to fight corruption, authorities in the Siberian Republic of Khakassia have taken to financially awarding traffic cops for turning down bribes.

Apr 9, 2010 | Continued
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High Mortality Rate in Russian Prisons ‘Depressing’

Efforts to reform Russia’s notoriously draconian penal system have resulted in fewer overall prisoners, but its staggering number of annual deaths remains.

Apr 6, 2010 | Continued
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Yulia Latynina on Russia’s Squandered Billions

Award-winning Russian journalist Yulia Latynina discusses what happens when a country spends it’s money on presidential palaces instead of infrastructure and roads. An exclusive from theotherrussia.org

Mar 26, 2010 | Continued
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Police Ask for Citizen Input on Reforms

Russians are being invited to send in their input on a new set of laws that would govern the country’s police forces, as Internal Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev is given nine months to fix his agency or be fired.

Mar 25, 2010 | Continued
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Khodorkovsky Calls Putin to Court

Imprisoned oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, currently in Moscow facing charges in a second case against him, has issued a series of questions that he demands Prime Minister Putin answer directly in court.

Mar 17, 2010 | Continued
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Tula Residents Paid to Vote for United Russia

Voters in the city of Tula are claiming that they were offered cash to vote for the ruling United Russia party in regional elections, with an opposition leader saying he has obtained video footage of the payments taking place.

Mar 12, 2010 | Continued
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Dymovsky Released from Detention Center

Russia’s whistleblowing ‘YouTube Cop,’ Aleksei Dymovsky, has been released from a Krasnodar detention center, although not before prison guards took what the former officer called “some small measure of revenge.”

Mar 8, 2010 | Continued