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Entretien avec Evguenia Timochenko Blog de Pascale Boniface- Diricteur D'IRIS 19 juin 2012 1/ Espérez-vous que votre mère soit libérée prochainement ? Nous avons bien sûr beaucoup d’espoir pour sa libération en raison des nombreux appels déjà effectués...

Transfer of Vatican Official Who Exposed Corruption Hints at Power Struggle Published: January 26, 2012 VATICAN CITY — An Italian television program about the transfer of a whistle-blowing Roman Catholic prelate has caused consternation at the Vatican...

China facts: CRIME & PUNISHMENT In ancient China, the “Five Punishments” for criminals were tattooing the face or forehead, cutting off the nose, amputation of one or both feet, castration, and death. It later evolved to become whipping with bamboo strips,...

25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis The good intentions, bad managers and greed behind the meltdown Full List Angelo Mozilo The son of a butcher, Mozilo co-founded Countrywide in 1969 and built it into the largest mortgage lender in the U.S. Countrywide...

Poverty in Russia Disappears in a Remarkable Manner The number of households with the income level below the poverty line in Russia dropped from 38 to 3 percent in 1998-2009, experts of the international monitoring of economic conditions in Russia (RLMS)...

Global corruption survey: Ukraine has highest level of corruption among Newly Independent States International civil rights organization Transparency International has launched a new Global Barometer, where Ukraine placed the last among the New Independent...

MOSCOW — A prominent journalist from Russia’s violence-plagued North Caucasus region was shot to death late Thursday as he left his newspaper, adding to a rising toll of journalists and human rights workers killed in the region in recent years. Lekai...

Snapshot of the Ukraine Country Profile Ukraine's former President, Viktor Yushchenko, made fighting corruption a top priority for his administration. However, traditions of transparent decision-making and societal understanding of corporate governance...

Defining Corruption According to the United Nations’ “Global Program against Corruption,” there is no single, comprehensive, universallyaccepteddefinitionofcorruption.15 TheUNConventionagainstCorruption,whichentered into force in December 2005, describes...

Corrupt institutions of the public administration is one of the major obstacles in the way of post-communist countries to building effective democracy and free market economy. This information is generally known to the EU agencies as well as to the population...