Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Russia

Bribery Report Gives Low Marks To Turkey, Russia, China

Russian oil awaiting export at a terminal in Vladivostok (ITAR-TASS)

October 4, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- A new report says companies from India, China, Russia, and Turkey are the worst offenders when it comes to offering bribes overseas to win business.

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October 04, 2006

Transparency International has issued its "Bribe Payers Index 2006," a ranking of the world's 30 largest exporting countries based on the likelihood of their companies to pay bribes abroad.

According to the survey of over 11,000 businesspeople in 125 countries, Switzerland, Sweden, and Australia are the most effective among the world's leading exporting countries in preventing their companies from offering bribing.

(with material from AP, Reuters)

Syrians in the northwestern town of Kfar Nubul pose with a cartoon depicting Russia

Angry Over Syria, Arab World Threatens Russian Boycott

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Alla Dzhioyeva attends a protest by her supporters in Tskhinvali on January 28.

South Ossetian Opposition Leader Hospitalized After Raid

Alla Dzhioyeva, the opposition candidate whose victory in a runoff ballot in November for de facto president of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia was swiftly annulled by the republic's Supreme Court, was taken to a hospital after a raid by some 200 masked security personnel on her headquarters in Tskhinvali. More

Protesters gather behind a banner reading "Honest Elections" during a demonstration in Moscow on February 4.

How To Rig An Election

A whistle-blower in Samara explains how the authorities fixed the Duma elections in December -- and plan to do the same in the presidential vote in March. More